Word: rushes
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Free Imagination. The success of WFMT is only the most notable example of the general rise of FM broadcasting across the U.S. Developed in the '30s when AM broadcasting was at its peak, slowed by World War II, FM was almost obliterated in the postwar rush to television. The quality of FM reception is clearly superior to AM, and is almost entirely static-free. As most of AM disintegrated into rock-'n'-rollery and TV began hunting for all the lowest cultural denominators, FM became an outpost of excellence whose scope has steadily grown. In 1956 there...
...year-old boy he was when they happened. But on occasion, usually to compare the present unfavorably with the past, he speaks with the knowledge of what has been going on in the U.S. and the county up till today. In almost the same breath, he refers to the rush of automobiles that have all but swamped modern-day Yoknapatawpha, and to the Gayoso Hotel in Memphis where he always stayed because, in 1864, an ancestor rode into the lobby trying to lay hands on a Yankee general...
Junior Bob Holton has been named captain of the varsity golf team for next season. Holton came on with a rush at the end of this season to fire a 75 against Columbia and a blistering 72 against Dartmouth...
...referendum, which is certain to be won by Algeria's 9,000,000 Moslems, a bloodbath is feared. Said a refugee: "We heard reports that on the day after referendum, Moslems will sweep into the European parts of Algiers and kill everyone." So great is the exit rush that even the S.A.O. has backed down from its unenforceable order that no European can leave Algeria without S.A.O. permission...
...daughter are both married.) Summers, they live in a big (22 rooms), comfortable home in Sands Point, Long Island. Donner commutes to the city on the Long Island Rail Road, and from Pennsylvania Station to his office, 25 blocks away. U.S. industry's highest-paid businessman joins rush-hour straphangers on the subway...