Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...river is marked by a snaking blue line, somehow suggesting a broad rush of water. In reality, the Awali River of southern Lebanon is little more than a stream, no more than a dozen feet wide along much of its meandering course from Mount Barouk to the Mediterranean Sea. What makes the river significant, however, is not its size but the fact that its banks will mark a new military line once the Israeli army completes its partial withdrawal this fall. As such, the Awali has become the latest symbol of the fragmentation of Lebanon...
Drive-ins made their biggest gains in the years following World War II, when car registrations zoomed and the rush to the suburbs began. They hit their peak in 1958, with 4,063 outdoor screens-"ozoners," as they were called in the trade. To attract young families, some operators set up playgrounds and offered warm milk, fresh diapers and even laundry facilities, so Mom could do the family wash while watching Mamie Van Doren undulate through High School Confidential. Since then the number of drive-ins has dropped dramatically. By 1980 there were only 3,504 screens; last year...
...that was before the South Street Seaport opened with a bash of festivities, celebrities and rush-hour crowds. In the shadow of the 100-year-old Brooklyn Bridge, the festival market now offers a trove of cultural attractions in a handsome historical resetting. A new Fulton Market is its centerpiece. Built of brick and granite with a hipped metal roof and wide-open entrances, the new market is just that: a bold, shirtsleeves kind of place for honest food without cellophane and a variety of eateries for all tastes and pocketbooks-some 40 establishments...
...went ashore to hand out leaflets to workers at the whale-processing plant. Suddenly a contingent of Soviet soldiers arrived and arrested the six. A Greenpeace member who was still aboard the Rainbow Warrior grabbed film that other members had shot and jumped into a motorized rubber boat to rush it back to Alaska. But a Soviet helicopter swooped down and plucked him out of the boat...
...confession rate is very high. Japan's 2,774 judges are often moved to impose lighter sentences by pleas of remorse. Writer Frank Gibney, an expert on Japan, observes, "Be it only a traffic accident, if a person has caused injury to another, he is well advised to rush to the hospital with flowers and gifts for the victim...