Word: bushed
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...unrelated incidents touched off another of the all too familiar shoot-outs between black extremists and police. First, a meeting of the National Committee to Combat Fascism (N.C.C.F.), a Black Panther-allied organization, discovered that two members were police informants. Called "Bush" and "Legs," the two said they were grilled at gunpoint, hit with boards studded with nails and then, as one participant put it, pushed into the street to "let the people deal with them." They were attacked by a mob until one escaped over a fence and the other found sanctuary in a grocery store operated by Clarence...
Another bone of contention was a subsequent suggestion by Galbraith that Texas Democrats help elect George Bush, a Republican, to the Senate over Lloyd Bensen, a conservative who defeated the Democrats' incumbent Ralph Yarborough in the Democratic primary last spring...
Another bone of contention was a subsequent suggestion by Galbraith that Texas Democrats help elect George Bush, a Republican, to the Senate over Lloyd Bensen, a conservative who defeated the Democrat's incumbent Ralph Yarborough in the Democratic primary last spring...
Blake's mother was very religious and undecided about whether or not to hit William, so she asked him what the angels had looked like. He beat around the bush for a few seconds, or so this little story goes, and then told his parents that the angels had looked like Ideas (a word he always spelled with a capital I). Mr. and Mrs. Blake chose not to beat little William, and were, to tell the truth, probably a little afraid of him. From then on though, he told anyone who would listen, about the wonderful things that he alone...
Total Recall. Part II is set in Venezuela. Papillon becomes an honest citizen. He marries and works variously as gold prospector, nightclub manager, fireman, bush-league dentist, commercial shrimp fisherman. More than 20 years pass. It is 1967. He is over 60 now, and down on his luck. He reads a book of prison memoirs by an Algerian-born lady ex-con named Albertine Sarrazin. Hastily, he buys 13 school notebooks. In a few months, apparently with near total recall, he scribbles Part I (1931 to 1945) in longhand and mails it to Sarrazin's editors in Paris. Called...