Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talk of a third party. Though the Wallace name had been wildly cheered everywhere, the Wallace words had been greeted with only perfunctory applause. The listeners who arrived in high enthusiasm had gone away as troubled as before. His loud cries "in behalf of the common man"; "stop the rush to war" did not stand analysis, and they continued to ring true only to the devout...
...sharp there was a fanfare of trumpets from the municipal band. "Defense absolue de fumer!" roared the loudspeakers around the park. With a hiss and a rush, the mixture of hydrogen and municipal cooking gas poured into the first of the great balloons lying limp on the greensward of Le Mans' Quinconces des Jacobins. At home, the housewives of Le Mans were busily trying to cook their Sunday dinners, so from time to time the gas had to be turned off again. But in the park a milling crowd of 10,000 cheered lustily...
...employer (Maureen O'Hara) regards him as a harmless old lunatic and her grimly progressive little girl (Natalie Wood) is sure he is an outright fraud. Kris stakes his earthly failure or success on winning them over to the faith. Meanwhile he raises hob with the Christmas-rush spirit by directing customers to rival stores, whenever Macy's merchandise is not exactly what they want...
...present enlistment rates, the Army will be even worse off by fall. By July 1, it will have lost the last of its draftees. From July to September a rush of departing short-term volunteers will boost discharge totals to 40,000 a month. To offset the trend, the Army can only hope for a big influx of high-school graduates (who are less enthusiastic about volunteering since the end of the draft) and a new recruiting bill now before Congress. The bill would permit enlistments of between two and six years, with a $50 annual bonus for indefinite "career...
...Estimate. George C. Marshall, back from an education in Moscow, did not like the fire-alarm theory. He was telling his intimates in his soldier's way last week that the menace to Greece and Turkey was pretty much like the Battle of the Bulge. You had to rush up reinforcements (in this case $400 million) "to straighten the line, but you didn't sit down thereafter and wait for another bulge to happen. George Marshall was trying, like a good campaigner, to get the initiative...