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Word: rushes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rush started last Friday and won't let up until Christmas Eve," a Coop spokesmen observed yesterday. Thirty additional workers have been added to handle the crowd, he said, and the second floor has been set up as a special Christmas shoppers' haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shops Packed As Yule Rush Reaches Peak | 12/16/1947 | See Source »

...annual Christmas rush had an atmosphere which shoppers had not sniffed since before Pearl Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Once a Year | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

September is Rush Month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Central Office Annex Will Alleviate Shortage of Cambridge Telephones | 12/9/1947 | See Source »

...that evening. One scholarly Liberal slowly recited Hamlet's "To be or not to be" in Japanese as he stood poised over the ballot box, waving a yes ballot and a no ballot in either hand. A wild fist-swinging melee began when opposition shock troops tried to rush the Speaker's rostrum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Tactical Toot | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...children repented: "This attitude was clearly distinguishable from regret at having been on the losing side, and it was not feigned; the rush of blood from the cheek after the shameful admission, the greenish swaying sickness of repentance are inimitable. It is not an attitude which has been taught them by an exploiting class. They were born into a tongue-tied age, and neither their school teachers or the culture within their reach had given them such positive instruction. The judgment they passed on their own disloyalty and the loyalty of others was a spontaneous reaction to experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Circles of Perdition | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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