Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...move forward heavily, as if drugged by the new weight, one of the gunners pushes off another stowaway. He sprawls on the ground a yard beneath us. The one interloper who did make it into the craft does not talk. He sits in the doorway, legs swinging in the rush of air, staring at the volcano, where the sun has set, leaving a ribbon of red across the sky. Nobody says anything on the way back...
Simon Wiesenthal is the avenging angel of the Holocaust. For almost half of his 73 years, operating from a cramped, three-room office in Austria, he has run war criminals to earth. A Holocaust research institute in Los Angeles bears his name, and celebrities rush to salute his work. Frank Sinatra's tribute is typical: "I would gladly give up every song I ever sang to rest my head on the pillow of your accomplishments...
MBTA spokesman William Coughlin said yesterday that the Board of Directors will probably submit a request for additional local funding today, adding that fare cuts, as well as increased rush-hour service, could be implemented as soon as possible if the supplementary budget gains approval...
With decreasing federal aid and the rising cost of higher education, many Harvard students will be changing their tune next year to the note of $1.560. Much to my chagrin I will be one of those new tune carriers. so to beat the rush I've composed a new song, a victory song, a song proclaiming our number one place in the Ivy League as its most expensive school. Unfortunately, most of us will have to sing this song next year and so I thought I would share it with the Harvard community...
...told Nixon: "If the Arabs sense that the Israelis have lost more than they have admitted, they might rush in." Nixon was preoccupied; he had spent much of the day tidying up Agnew's resignation, to be announced within 24 hours. This might have deflected him from details, but it had not dimmed his eye for essentials. "The Israelis must not be allowed to lose," he agreed. His decision was to speed equipment and to guarantee...