Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mixture of his own two idols, Bach and Villa-Lobos. He is a fiery little man who can jump in an instant from twinkling good humor to a shouting, stamping rage. He is vain enough to give his age as 60 (though friends say he is 67), and to rush his music indiscriminately into print. "The maestro," a Rio critic once said, "has written about 2,000 works. I would throw 1,950 of them away." The remaining 50 are still enough to make Villa-Lobos South America's greatest living composer...
Lamont Library will be ready on Schedule for undergraduates in time for the reading period rush next January...
...face of Hummon's ominous white-supremacy shouting, Georgia's Negro voters did not exactly rush to the polls. In Melvin Thompson's home town of Valdosta, Klansmen hoisted a fiery cross after his election-eve speech. In Bulloch County, Klansmen deposited a coffin on the doorstep of one Negro. In the piney woods area of Montgomery County, a 28-year-old Negro named Isaiah Nixon asked if he could vote. He was warned not to, the sheriff said, but voted anyhow. That night two men appeared at his house, shot him dead in front...
...French frigate, L'Aventure, had been idling for days awaiting an important passenger: Count Jacques Juge de Bernonville, 50. A wartime collaborator, he had been sentenced to death in France for "violence, treason, arson and looting." As soon as Canada handed him over, L'Aventure would rush him home. But L'Aventure would not sail right away. De Bernonville was in the middle of a political row between Quebec nationalists and the federal government...
...blame? Partly the students. Because of the "pious sentiment" that everybody should go to college, "a halo has been cast about the word 'college,' and ... as a consequence there is a blind rush...