Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Otis Rush, 32, another Mississippian, is the smoothest of the new city stylists. He eschews the leaping and gyrating that other bluesmen indulge in because "anybody can jive around like that." Instead, he takes the "more soulful" approach by standing stock-still and concentrating on his inventive, left-handed guitar playing. His voice is lighter and cleaner-textured than those of most blues singers, but when it swoops and curls around a blues line, it carries an electrifying current of feeling...
Widespread Confusion. Last week, as teams of expert observers toured the U.S. and regional offices filed their reports, Social Security Commissioner Robert M. Ball announced that "forecasts of a rush to hospitals by people 65 and over have not materialized." Admissions have risen only about 3%, and occupancy is generally below capacity. Of the nation's 8,200 hospitals, 6,600 have been approved to participate in Medicare; the institutions already accepted contain 96% of the general hospital beds in the U.S. As for general administration, 700,000 "start of care" notices were received in the first six weeks...
...first Negroes arrived, and there were fears that the neighborhood might turn into a suburban ghetto. But calmer residents decided to hang" on. Forming a community association, they saved their hardest sell for prospective white buyers to replace families that had left, urged Negroes to avoid a wholesale rush into the area. Given a choice between a quota and a ghetto, Negroes cooperated. The result: an integrated but balanced community. Across the U.S., more than 500 similar fair-housing committees have been set up to thwart blockbusters...
...bullet 20 years ago in Tito's dictatorial heyday. Tito has mellowed since then, but he still must draw the line somewhere. His plight is that of all post-Stalin Communists: how to satisfy a people's craving for liberty and not be swept away by the rush toward freedom...
...previous medical phenomenon has ever quite matched the headlong U.S. rush to use the oral contraceptives now universally known as "the pills." An estimated 5,000,000 American women now take them; and, as a special advisory committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said: "Never have so many people taken such potent drugs voluntarily over such a protracted period for an objective other than the control of disease...