Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aide with the heady news that two more Huntsville rocket projects had been approved ("O.K. on No. 8 and No. 10"). Back in his office, Von Braun flopped into a chair behind a huge pile of congratulatory messages, found just a moment to reflect on the fantastic rush of events. "Oh, to be in space this week," he grinned. "It's so quiet up there...
...avoid rush-hour tie-ups on the Potomac River bridges, they boarded a Marine Corps helicopter on the White House south lawn in Ike's first such use of a whirlybird. They touched down 3½ minutes later at National Airport. On the flight out, Columbine Pilot Lieut. Colonel William Thomas learned that the Kansas City Municipal Airport was fogged in, instead put down at the Naval Air Station in Olathe, Kans. Startled Navy officials hastily assembled a motorcade of staff cars, managed to get the President and Milton into a Navy Chevrolet for the 27-mile ride into...
...heretofore scrupulously nonpolitical army. The government admitted last week that it had arrested eight active army officers on charges of "plotting," and popular Defense Minister Semi Ergin resigned, apparently in protest against the arrests. (His successor: Ethem Menderes, no kin.) Foreigners watch Adnan Menderes' headlong economic rush, and wait unhappily for the day of reckoning. "Menderes is a master brinksman," says one U.S. observer, "and somebody has to outbrink him sooner or later." Even Menderes himself once moodily remarked: "You know, I'm the kind that prefers a fast, flashy sports car with all its risks...
Tiny (4 ft. 8 in.) Author Grimault, herself a French farm girl, groups her rush of words well in short, clear sentences. Despite the repulsive midden from her imagination, there is a kind of dirty-faced innocence about the book, and an undeniable storytelling ability. Half-illiterate when she wrote the novel, Berthe Grimault had help from a village postmaster who barbered the grammar, laundered the sex. Currently, a proper laundering is in process: at the Grove, a British finishing school, the staff is trying to get Berthe to behave as if she were less familiar with country matters...
...Most road surfaces are of highest quality, and all are dustless," said the captain. "Thousands of cars in every American town keep rushing past, one behind another, in two or three or four rows, all maintaining good speed in rhythmic, graceful waves of disciplined traffic. Traffic policemen are never seen on roads normally. They rush in from police stations only if there is an accident or anything untoward happens. All public buses invariably run on time, and are rarely overcrowded. The minimum sounding of the horn, by all motor vehicles, is amazing...