Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Russin said he learned that in elephant racing one must speak in a firm, deep voice. The two key words are "Rush!" (get going), and "Sabu!" (Stop). The Crimson mahout said he has been practicing the second of these carefully, since once elephants get mad enough to run, they've been known to go for four or five hours without stopping...
...hard currency and gold reserves, estimated at $300 million, are exhausted. The black-market rate for U.S. dollars has climbed 100% in eight months. The price for once-plentiful rice has trebled in three months. In wide areas, famine is raging, and troop rations have been slashed to rush food to the people. Thousands of people were suffering from malnutrition, and near Djakarta 70 were reported dead of starvation...
...years ago, Nairobi was a bustling, prosperous capital with hopes of a vigorous future. Today, beggars are on the streets, capital is pouring out of the country, and industrial unemployment has risen to 25%. Reason: the dramatic rush toward black rule has convinced many of the colony's 65,000 European settlers that there is no hope in Kenya for anyone with white skin...
...pocketcomb mustache is, of course, long since gone. But his eyes have the same wistful sparkle they showed when he was eating the shoe in The Gold Rush; his life seems to be about half over, no more...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying follows Robert Morse's beguilefully self-appreciative rush to the corporate summit. This accoladen musical was voted best of the year by the New York Drama Critics Circle...