Word: onrushingness
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"Another Game." All was in readiness last week when the Bums rolled into St. Louis for a last three-game series with the onrushing Cardinals. Two weeks before, the Dodgers were coasting six games ahead of the pack. But then the Cards won 19 out of 20, and the Dodger...
Doomed to be thrust from power by the onrushing forces of history, the aristocracy of 18th century Europe elected to live out its autumn in a sort of perpetual costume party. It was an age of elaboration, in manners and art, essentially frivolous but with a concealed streak of autumnal...
With an excited grin he embraced the vista, and started asking questions of his visitor: "What is the name of that hill in the background, I haven't found anyone who can tell me? What are those small boats (the answer was sculls)?" Then he pointed to two small ducks...
Football, as the pros go at it, is a game of special brilliance, played by brilliant specialists. A great golfer strives for versatility: to master the controlled hook, the chip-and-run, the wedge pitch, to learn a dozen uses for each of the 14 clubs in his bag-and...
Your article about the first successful Nike-Zeus interception of a special target vehicle borne aloft by an Atlas ICBM [TIME, July 27] stated that "the onrushing Atlas ICBM actually carried a transmitter to clue the slender, 48-ft. Nike-Zeus bird on the target.''