Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brief period in the 1970s, beginning with the expurgation from Government of the Watergate gang, Americans flirted with the idea of demanding personal morality in high places. That rush to morality may be ebbing...
Iran's economy was already beginning to show signs of deterioration. Construction work had come to a standstill, real estate prices had fallen, all credit had been stopped. There was a rush to buy foreign exchange. Since September, an estimated $3 billion in bank deposits has been transferred by wealthy Iranians to accounts abroad. Rumors that the government will limit the flow of money?a move that it probably should have taken months ago?only served to spur the panic flight of capital, which last week was said to be running at the rate of $50 million a day. Meanwhile...
...Rather than being harmful to the research, such pressure probably stimulates better work, Gilbert says, adding, "It can be detrimental, or one can simply view it as part of the effervescence of the field of science. It's not a question of added pressure. I like to rush," he insists...
...team stats show that Harvard has some serious weaknesses. The defense ranks last in the Ivies against the pass, second last against the rush, last in overall yardage (375 per game) and last in scoring (16 touchdowns...
...stone, sometimes it is no more than a puff, a vapor with color bleeding through it. It is never crude and only rarely inert. In this way a most sonorous pictorial eloquence is placed at the service of incommunicable feelings, and the sad facts of Rothko's life rush in to complete the missing subject matter. In a sense, the late works are declarations of the impotence of painting: it could not blot up enough anguish, or take the burden of existence away from the artist. The Black Hole expanded to fill the canvas, but no surface could contain...