Word: bushed
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...George Bush, 72, gave up martinis for a month to get in shape for his parachute jump, endured countless gibes from his loving but irreverent kids ("Next you'll tell us you have an 18-year-old girlfriend"), shouted "Arch!" (yes, as in arch your back) as he leaped into the blue instead of "Geronimo!" like John Wayne, bumped his head against the fuselage, but then floated exuberantly into the record books as the only parachuting former President...
...penalty--one case of beer--because he'd dropped the rip cord instead of fixing it back on the patch of Velcro. Unwritten rule of the skyways: Recycle your equipment. His fellow jumpers didn't mind a bit, pronouncing his jump "perfect" for a novice. But Bush cared...
Just after midnight copy expert Michael Poller switches from the classical and easy-listening favorites to what he calls the "more hard core" head-bangers of Offspring and Bush...
YUMA, Arizona: When George Bush bailed out of a torpedo bomber under heavy Japanese fire in 1944, he promised himself that someday he would like to jump again for fun someday. Tuesday, the 72-year-old former President did just that, taking the plunge from 12,500 feet above the Army Yuma Proving ground. Two watchful jump masters kept the President secured to a harness until he deployed his orange, yellow and blue parachute at 4,500 feet. While eight other parachutists also made the jump, Bush was the undisputed star of the show. Flashing a thumbs-up at reporters...
...week at the home of golf pro Greg Norman will earn the President his own place in the history of First Duffers. When it comes to presidential golf, it has often been the spectators (fore!) who were wounded, not the Chief Hackers. (See Clinton's 1995 outing with George Bush and Gerald Ford, when three people were hit by errant shots from the two ex-Presidents.) But Clinton is hardly the first President to come to grief over golf...