Word: rush
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these cases may be an unspoken one: an end run around the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark abortion case, Roe v. Wade. That 1973 decision found that the rights of the mother, rather than the fetus, are primary. Says Leslie Harris of the A.C.L.U.: "Those who want to rush in and criminalize the behavior of women are pushing a different agenda than prenatal care. If they can persuade the courts that a woman who chooses to carry a child to term has obvious legal obligations, how could she at the same time have the right to abort the fetus...
...allowable to pay for three days but return the car after two, and anyway didn't have the right kind of vouchers, could I please come back tomorrow. To any longtime American Anglophile, everything about this episode -- the saleswoman's sweet, bovine unreason, the infinite lack of rush, the commercial hopelessness of a Wales Tourist Center seemingly intent on keeping you out of Wales -- dripped with nostalgia for a lost civilization: pre-Thatcher Britain. Life isn't much like that anymore. Ten years after Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister, an episode far more characteristic of the present moment, and also...
...Rush--Sommerville Theater...
...Rush--Sommerville Theater...
Fortunately, nature itself, in fits and starts, seemed to be coming to the rescue. Four days of rain and snowstorms last week helped break up the floating oil and cleanse a number of shores. Moreover, the coming of the long / spring and summer thaw is sure to create a rush of rivulets and waterfalls that will help wash off the shoreline. Observed John Robinson, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: "In the end, nature has to do this...