Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editors, the admen, the garment workers) or by their special interests at play (the bowlers, the painters, the weekend sailors). It is they who supply the metropolitan vitality. Unhappily, the part of the metropolis that advertises itself most blatantly to the passing tourist points to the jazz joints on Rush Street or the celebrity seekers in the Peppermint Lounge. Luckily for civilization, the flint of genius strikes its sparks generously on the steel of the city. Artists, writers, philosophers, scientists-all have made the city their natural habitat...
...mayors must grapple with. The automobile has become the dragon in the streets of the city, choking off traffic, polluting the air, challenging pedestrians to perform incredible veronicas. In 1911 a horse and buggy could move through Los Angeles at a rate of 11 m.p.h.; in 1962 during the rush hours, the average car makes the same trip at 5 m.p.h. The touted freeways designed to aid entrance to and exit from the city are already outgrown, will reach their peak in 1968-eleven years before the entire 1049-mile system will be completed. Most cities have seen their commuter...
...opening'' last week of the U.S.'s first big Japanese-owned department store created quite a splash. Within 15 minutes after Seibu of Los Angeles unlocked its door, 5,000 shoppers were inside, women were fainting, policemen had to bar all entrances to slow down the rush and traffic was backed up for four blocks along Wilshire Boulevard. By day's end Seibu's clerks had been buffeted by 40,000 Angelenos, who bought $25,000 worth of merchandise ranging from obi cloth theater coats to men's silk suits tailored in Japan...
...fact, we think it's frightfully clever of all you boys and girls not to rush over to 14 Plympton St. for the very first competition meeting. One doesn't, after all, want to appear impulsive or over-eager. Not with one's peers sitting in judgment...
Christmas Island. It was in the light of those somber findings that President Kennedy moved toward his decision that the U.S. should resume its tests in the atmosphere. He was in no rush to announce his decision until the complex test facilities were fully prepared, for that would only lengthen the U.S. exposure to vitriolic attack from ban-the-bomb opinion around the world...