Word: onrush
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...brought on by the puffiness in her face, or any of the temperamental swings that arc throughout the pregnancy. She does not take her dreams or reveries into account, her imagining what the baby will look like or grow up to be. Most acutely, she fails to anticipate that onrush of inexpressible satisfaction when the baby is laid across her breast in the delivery room. For all such moments she was paid a fee, yet her reactions not only lie outside the business deal but are shadowed by that deal, as if her instincts had been hawked in the marketplace...
...richly for this simple need, Benton is free to turn to what really interests him: the quality of the lives that people lead between the plotlines, their sense of the world and of their connections with it. In particular, his business is to evoke, and thus rescue from the onrush of history, the way things were for him when he was a boy growing up in the small town of Waxahachie, Texas, in the 1930s, to get down on film "a sense of being in a place and part of a place that goes back further than anyone you know...
There was no sign of where or how the enemy onrush could be stopped...
...challenges and upheavals facing the U.S. economy are hardly unique. All industrial nations are struggling with the onrush of technology and the painful transition from the past to the future. Western Europe is having a particularly difficult time moving toward the New Economy. In most European countries, many heavy industries like steel and coal mining are nationalized. Political pressure has made it difficult for governments to shrink these industries and move workers into new fields. In addition, European workers are much less willing than Americans to pick up and move to a new location. European governments have also made...
...aspect of modern corporate life is immune to the onrush of computer technology's latest tools. In Boston, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. has provided word-processing terminals for more than 100 secretaries and other clerical workers. Since January productivity for the employees has jumped by an astonishing...