Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointments, and each afternoon he thrashed about, thigh deep, in the budget. Outside his oval office early in the week an unseasonably warm sun drenched the White House's south lawn. Inside, a hustling Truman was as busily in-season as a department-store clerk in the Christmas rush...
...crowd began gathering near the sentry boxes at Blair House at dusk, stood raptly as rush-hour traffic blatted past on Pennsylvania Avenue. It multiplied as President Harry Truman walked across the street from the White House with three Secret Service men and hurried inside. Madame Chiang Kai-shek was about to come to tea-and to make a last-ditch plea for aid to China...
With shelves piled high, retailers were still waiting for the Christmas rush. At week's end it had not materialized. Department-store sales were still below last year's, despite a rash of bargain sales...
...extra clerks and 35 additional letter-carriers have ben added to the staff to deal with the holiday rush. Providing there are no big snows, the post office thinks it can maintain normal service...
Harvard looked uncoordinated through almost all of the game. Except for Key and defenseman Dick Greeley, no one in a red shirt stood our consistently. Doug Anderson took the puck once in his own blue line and turned in a spectacular one-man scoring rush late in the second period; Al Key threw one head-over-heels check a minute later...