Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state of Massachusetts was ready for any crowd. More than 1000 policemen, with 7000 more security forces in the downtown area guarded a common cordoned off with hundreds of blue barrels and bedecked with banners. Subways ran at rush hour frequency for much of the day, and several thoroughfares were closed...
...Secret Service receives a bomb report, and four agents with a German Shepherd rush to the far corner of the Common in a Harley-Davidson golf cart. The dog decides that the bomb is buried underneath the stop light at the corner of Beacon Street and whines until his masters, relieved at the false alarm, lift him back aboard the cart...
...even the use of public land, would violate the Constitution's separation of church and state. Complained Boston Plaintiff Bill Baird: "What do you think would happen if the Ayatullah Khomeini were coming to Boston Common to conduct a Muslim service? Do you think there would be a rush to provide $2 million in public funds for that...
...perceived economic distress and uncertainty, is epidemic. From Zurich to Chicago, from London to Hong Kong, goldbugs are scurrying once again to buy into their favorite hedge against disaster. With people battered by inflation and recession, worried about oil and lacking confidence in leaders and cures, the gold rush of '79 has turned into a stampede as schoolboys, housewives and pensioners have jumped in along with big investors. It is a surge that bodes little good for late-coming, small investors, the fragile international monetary system, the dollar and even some national economies...
Fears that OPEC oil prices would rise and supplies would tighten also helped speed the rush to bullion, as did the perceived political weakness of Jimmy Carter and the threat of a challenge from Edward Kennedy. Some European dealers are calling the gold surge a "Kennedy rally" because it has been spurred by expectations that his free-spending, liberal policies might exacerbate U.S. inflation if he were elected. In the thin, highly volatile market, that distant worry is enough for a big rise...