Word: rushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First act of the new Cabinet was to order more troops to China. Soldiers left Japan last week in the largest number since the initial shipments in September. Army officers roamed the streets commandeering commercial trucks. One U. S. automobile branch agency was given a rush order for 1,800 machines. Next step observers last week believed imminent was the complete application of the National Mobilization Act, which would place the nation on full wartime footing, give the army virtual control over industry and all phases of national life...
Last week, the answer to whether salmon would use their Bonneville facilities finally became known. It was Yes. During April, Bonneville's fish census-takers grew increasingly nervous. Only a small number of salmon went by each day. Last week the fishways looked like a subway in a rush hour. This year's run was smaller than usual but an average of 1,600 salmon a day were using the ladders and there was no indication that fish had difficulty finding their way. Since the number of salmon who used to go up the river to spawn...
...strains of "Up the Street" were swelling across to the Memorial Church when the cloudburst struck with a rush and roar that sent the gaily-dressed listeners scurrying for the nearest cover...
...valley and gazed a dizzy thousand feet down a sheer granite cliff. This river was also slow and gently, meandering through meadows which were solid yellow from their cloaks of mountain daisies. But it was the quiet of a river which is battered and exhausted from the reckless rush through a steep gorge where it has been cut to snowy foam against the chaotic jumble of jagged boulders, where it has hurtled over precipices--not in smooth little aprons but in balls of white water which shoot far out into the air and then plummet downwards like rockets, leaving behind...
...middle of Act II, Producer Wiman suddenly tosses Budapest into the Danube, lights out for Manhattan, hotchas up Broadway and gives the signal for all kinds of people to rush in where angels fear to tread. The slightly incongruous result wakes up a drowsing show with the black coffee of a burlesque on a Radio City Music Hall routine, introduced by the song At the Roxy Music Hall...