Word: hurriedness
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Hurried Responses. While Chip was working California, Texas, Missouri and Ohio during the past week, his wife Caron, 25, who has a master's degree in early-childhood education, was touring Tennessee, Oklahoma and Kansas, even though she is expecting her first child in February. "I feel good and...
Meanwhile, back East in Wall Street, a bullhorn blared: "Come meet Jack Carter, son of Jimmy Carter, the next President of the United States." Walking with a small entourage, Jack, 29, got friendly if hurried responses from passers-by in the financial district, not the most popular area to discuss...
JOHN CONNALLY, 59, was the most apparent loser. Usually a spellbinder, he hurried through a strangely flat address to an underwhelmed convention. His peroration was so gloomy that he sounded like a Texas Spengler: "How long this civilization, this free society of America will exist, I do not know."
In Tientsin, 90 miles away, former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was rudely awakened in his suite on the eighth floor of his hotel, a new building of modern design, when it began shaking "like an accordion." As he and his wife Margaret hurried down the stairs to the safety...
In a time when the British Empire is being rent asunder, Edward Gibbon has produced an eloquent and authoritative account of the ruin of Imperial Rome. This is somewhat surprising, since Gibbon, 39, an inconspicuous Member of Parliament, has previously written only some brief essays and two minor volumes of...