Word: onrushingness
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Some 13,000 paying customers ranged along the course were soon getting their money's worth. Roaring up the beach straightaway on the first lap, the pack hit close to 115 m.p.h., slowed to 60 for the first turn. Some cyclists failed to hit their brakes hard enough, approaching...
It is not the city's people which make it our prime choice for prompt engulfment. Nor is it our sister university, Brown (which fortunately sits on a hill twelve feet high and which would be spared from the onrushing waters). It is the town's streets, which might jokingly...
Lieut. Commander Tierney, concluded the board, committed a "grave error of judgment" in making a sharp left turn into the path of the onrushing Wasp. This turn was the "sole cause" of the collision, said the admirals, completely absolving the Wasp's Captain Burnham C. McCaffree of all fault...
At the beginning of the maneuver, Lieut. Hoefer testified, the destroyer's captain, running on the inside of the Wasp's sweeping turn, ordered "right standard rudder," thus turning his vessel in the same direction as the Wasp. But shortly thereafter he called for "left standard rudder" and...
When he returned to the U.S., Davies decided that he wanted to learn Chinese. After the Berlitz school had taught him some fifteen hundred characters, he was ready to return to cover the Nationalist-Communist struggle. Then he found himself in the thick of the Korean War, covering the battle...