Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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People testily debated the treatment accorded the so-called Bonus Marchers -a plucky contingent of some 20,000 veterans who, invading Washington to demand bonus money, got instead an official bum's rush from Congress, backed up by troops commanded by Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur. Was that any way to treat men who fought in the war? The World War, that is. It did not yet own a Roman numeral...
Sheehy, a sophomore who had tallied his first varsity point with a goal in the Great Lakes Invitational tournament the previous weekend, slammed home a 25-foot wrist shot in the first period, and tucked in his third of the season after a rink-long rush midway through the second...
...rambunctious Dartmouth squad bolted to a 3-0 lead when Mark Burton, Mark Bedard, and Chip Bettencourt tallied unanswered goals in the first period and a half. As in Saturday night's 3-2 loss to Brown, the icemen came back with a furious third period rush, but just as the Bruin's Paul McCarthy kicked away 21 shots to preserve that one-goal lead, Big Green netminder Bob Gaudet single-handedly put the brakes on the Harvard attack with a superb final stanza...
...issues, though, remain an investment for the lucky and adventurous. Warns Joel S. Lawson of Howard & Co.: "The initial public offering marketplace is like a window while it is open. But it closes like a guillotine: no warning, a rush of air and silence...
...should be profoundly boring to anyone under 70. The problem is that values (these days, even elementary skills in how to raise children) vanish into the cracks between generations. Anthropologist Margaret Mead believed ten years ago that the West had entered an age so headlong in its rush toward the future that the old no longer had much of value to teach the young. Well, the future no longer seems quite so wildly original. But even in rigidly traditional epochs, it was human nature for one generation to reject, dynamite and otherwise ridicule the structures and ideas of the previous...