Word: onrushingness
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On busy Los Angeles streets, newsboys stand precariously among onrushing autos to hawk afternoon papers to motorists at the traffic lights. Result: in ten years, 17 newsboys have been killed, 283 injured. To stop the slaughter, Los Angeles' city council, pushed by the P.T.A., safety organizations and fearful drivers...
"Blondie's Big Deal" inserts itself on the same bill, and is noteworthy for a truly obnoxious business man named Mr. Radcliffe and the first post war use of a piece of beef-steak to soothe a blackened eye. If you enjoy the repeated sight of mail men being demolished...
Plievier's finest writing is in description of single horror scenes--the mobs of wounded men on the Gumrak landing strip, who storm each Junkers transport as it lands in the desperate hope of being flown to safety; the freezing corridors of a field hospital, where the wounded are left...
Staccato Flaps. When his handler released him, John Kehoe's grey tore across the pit, neck-feathers up. His onrushing enemy was a powerful red rooster equipped, like the grey, with needle-sharp, steel gaffs that man had added to his natural weapons. (U.S. cockfighters consider themselves more humane...
In 1881, when the city of Hilo, Hawaii was threatened by Mauna Loa, a local princess was called to the rescue. Mumbling an incantation, she threw a hunk of her hair into the onrushing lava and stopped it right on the outskirts of town. In 1935 the U.S. Army substituted...