Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republicans and independents. Gerald Ford, although he has disavowed an active quest for the nomination, continues as the second-most popular Republican, with 23%. John Connally remains third with 14%, up slightly from his October rating of 11%. Howard Baker is still fourth with 10%. Former CIA Director George Bush, touted by many as a potential threat to Reagan in next month's caucuses in Iowa, has gradually moved up from a mere 2% last April...
...equipped with Soviet Kalashnikov automatic rifles, portable antiaircraft missiles and other sophisticated arms. Employing classic hide-and-seek guerrilla tactics, the "boys," as they are affectionately called by the villagers who harbor them, have achieved control over much of the countryside. On occasion they have even left the bush to strike in Salisbury: a year ago, a raiding party blew up a gasoline depot, destroying a month's supply of fuel...
...action cleared the way for a "second-class solution": a bilateral settlement with Salisbury that would bar the guerrillas from the elections. In that event, warned an angry Front spokesman, "it will be a British war against us. If the conference breaks up, we go back to the bush to fight...
...most expensive Hollywood farce ever made. Certainly money has its uses in movies, but in a comedy? A key element of humor is surprise; jokes are funniest when they sneak up on the audience out of nowhere. In big-budget film making, the opportunities for comic am bush quickly disappear. Every joke announces itself in deafening stereo sound. Every pratfall is as momentous as Cecil B. DeMille's parting of the, Red Sea. Punch lines cannot be thrown away, but are instead hurled like thunderbolts...
Republicans were more outspoken. Said John Connally: "I am sure that Ayatullah Khomeini is pleased to hear Senator Kennedy's remarks." George Bush felt that the statement "might endanger the lives of the hostages" and raises "serious questions about Kennedy's judgment on foreign policy." Press comment was strongly unfavorable and occasionally stinging. The Washington Post: "It wasn't right, it wasn't responsible, and it wasn't smart." The Atlanta Constitution: "Kennedy, in a cynical campaign ploy against the incumbent President who cannot respond, has publicly sided with the Khomeini anarchy in Iran...