Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arlington High goalie comes out to protect his net as the Freshmen skaters rush in to score...
...Polite Cops. Nanking people who remained tried to celebrate the New Year as best they could. In the back rooms of their stores, shopkeepers lit candles on their red altars for ceremonial offerings to the gods. Barbershops were doing a rush business, and fortune tellers were so sought after that they made appointments days in advance. Nanking's miserable colony of refugees from Communist areas was sprinkled with red paper signs asking health & wealth from the gods. An old man who had fled Suchow three months ago tapped tobacco from some cigarette butts into his pipe and said...
...Government had handled him. If Gieseking had been a Nazi sympathizer-and the evidence seemed to show that he once was-why had he been given a visa in the first place? In the second place, why had the Justice Department given him the bum's rush after the State Department had cleared him? The Washington Post asked an even bigger question: "How long are Americans going to deny the artistry of former enemies because, in effect, they did not openly oppose their own governments...
During all those years, Headmaster Lucas didn't change much. Though he became a canon of his cathedral and assistant to the Bishop of Washington, he never learned to be formal. If he heard that some teacher's wife had suddenly been taken ill, he would still rush headlong out of a conference to see that she got proper care; once, when he attended a Halloween party in his old Marine uniform, he danced so hard that the pants split down the middle. The Christianity he taught was never stern. "He could have been any kind of clergyman...
...twice that. As big-scale production cut costs the Levitts decided they could give Levittown a slightly bigger house (25 by 32), with a lot of extra comforts, for $7,990. Originally they had planned to build only 2,500 of them this year. After last week's rush they expected to up their goal to 4,000 houses...