Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admired for her elegance, and the family dachshund, Xenophon, became something of a local celebrity. Couve's next post was West Germany, and one afternoon in the spring of 1958, soon after De Gaulle returned to office, he was reached on a Cologne golf course with orders to rush back to France...
...rush to the cities will be hard to slow down. No matter how uninviting they may seem to others, they will always look good to thousands of people like Carlos Fernandez, who recently left the rural south of Chile for Santiago. "Sometimes I'd listen to the radio," he says, "and Santiago seemed like another country...
...billion. But now it has a rival-the microcircuit, a tiny device that represents a bigger advance over the transistor than the transistor did over the bulky vacuum tube. Last year some $20 million worth of microcircuits (mostly as missile components) were sold by a dozen companies, but the rush of firms to get into the business is so great that by 1967 sales are expected to reach $300 million, and to top $1 billion in another five years...
Will Moses reach the Promised Land? Will Dante get across the Styx? The Bible and The Divine Comedy are not generally thought of as cliff hangers, but that is just what they have become to millions of Italians. Each week readers rush to the newsstands-which also prominently display dozens of girlie publications-to buy magazine-like booklets that contain installments from a classic or an encyclopedia. The idea of dispensing culture in weekly dollops has brought a fortune to the three Milanese publishers who conceived...
...complexion of the marriage changed after Bonaparte returned a national hero, besieged by well-wishers and idolized by women ("Genius has no sex!" cried Madame de Stael, trying to rush past a startled footman to surprise Bonaparte in his bath). Threatened with divorce, Josephine meekly settled down to the role of dutiful wife...