Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four years Bush was in New Haven, the campus came to eschew the traditional in favor of the radical...
...Bush, though notoriously unpretentious, became deeply involved in the club, and following the club's rules of secrecy, never mentioned his membership to his roommate...
...Yale administration proved more conciliatory to the student protesters than their colleagues elsewhere. In Bush's senior year, the dress code was abolished and Yale moved to a pass-fail grading system. For the first time, public high school graduates outnumbered prep school graduates at Yale. And University Chaplain William Sloane Coffin publicly denounced the Vietnam War in debates with William F. Buckley...
...Bush, whose father was then a member of Congress who supported the war, the culture of protest was not one he could consider joining...
Indeed, after Bush's father lost a Senate bid to an anti-war Democrat, Coffin allegedly told the young undergraduate that his father had been "beaten by a better...