Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson's decision took Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey by surprise. Assuming that Johnson would wear the traditional cutaway, Hubert had already dropped by to see Washington Tailor Sam Scogna and get measured for the full-dress attire. Sam, forgetting that only spools rush in where tailors fear to thread, told everybody that the Vice President-elect was his customer for an inaugural outfit. Next thing Humphrey heard was a report that Tailor Sam was making a $175 cutaway for him. Making? cried Humphrey. I'm only renting...
...town in the rebel re doubt of the upper Congo. Through "the jungle telephone," an advancing column of white mercenaries learned of the trap, cut through the bush and entered the town from the rear. As their skirmish line entered Poko, the whites were surprised to see the Simbas rush toward them jubilantly, their right arms raised in the rebel salute and shouting the rebel yell of "Mai Mulele!" It did not take the mercenaries long to realize that the Simbas took them for Russians, come to fight on their side. The Simbas' disappointment was short lived: the mercenaries...
...stock, then closed on Friday at 64⅝. The flood of buy orders twice forced the Stock Exchange to delay Comsat's opening, and trading once had to be suspended for two hours. The Federal Communications Commission ordered an "informal" inquiry to make sure that in the speculative rush foreign ownership had not exceeded its 20% legal limit. The stock hit a record high of 66¼ after Comsat announced plans to start the first commercial service between North America and Europe next May with its "Early Bird" satellite. Wall Streeters were still flabbergasted. "It would have been unpatriotic...
...like a frock coat--underneath she is the same old town you'd see the other 11 months, carrying out, as ever, her inevitable business. Explore her infinity on your own, put your own ear to her breast, then hear her internal rumblings. You must slow yourself down, not rush through on Gray-Line sightseeing tours, inundated by some puerile spiel. "Man," wrote Jon Hendricks in a jazz poem to Manhattan, "if you can't make it in N.Y. City you can't make it nowhere .... I wrote the shortest jazz poem you ever heard. Nothin' 'bout huggin' and kissin...
...everyone's satisfaction that failing to clear the puck and leaving Husky forwards loose in front of its net would result in Northeastern goals. Bloh, Bill Seabury, and Jim Leu scored fairly routinely, but Joe MacGillivray's marker was an eye-opener. In the face of a Husky rush, Welch skated 25 feet in front of his goal to bat aside MacGillivray's length-of-the-rink pass, but missed. The puck slid agonizingly into the open net behind...