Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thirty minutes later--suspiciously good time for an eleven-year-old on foot, Dewitt realized--Dewitt Jr. returned clutching one of the most precious prints in the pantheon of film humour, a rare jewel by the Leonardo da Vinci of screen guffaws, Preston Sturges. Dewitt felt a rush of parental pride...
...scary morning, though, there were a few seconds on the downstream run when six of the eight were rowing in nearly perfect sync, no boats were on our tail, and no bridges were in sight for at least a few minutes. For those few seconds, I felt an unusual rush of completeness and connection with the rowers. I was their eyes, and I was doing the job correctly. I made it into the dock in triumph, experiencing the type of thrill that for me was usually came after a good exam or editing a story well...
...rescue operation begins. Stars arrive from all over the nation for a nationally televised benefit concert billed as "Oral Aid." The first act features Oral's fellow evangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker of the PTL (Plenty of Terrific Limosines) Ministry. They arrive in separate rescue limos. Reporters rush to Jim's limosine when the chauffeur opens the car door to help starlet "Charo...
...back doors of Science Center D in the same way that he was brought in, we acted to block the back doors peacefully and nonviolently "only so that he will leave by the front doors." We remained silent throughout this action and made no attempt to rush the podium or obstruct passage through the lobby doors; our intent was to ensure his eventual exit through the lobby and to demonstrate peacefully and silently our opposition to the system of apartheid which Kent-Brown was defending. We never considered using force to deny Kent-Brown's freedom to move wherever...
...cluster warning signals, like other indications of suicidal tendencies, can often be ignored by parents, peers and teachers. "Everybody is in such a rush that we don't take the time to listen to our youngsters," says Elaine Leader, co-founder of a teen crisis hotline at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. In cases of cluster suicides, notes Charlotte Ross, executive director of the Youth Suicide National Center, "people grossly underestimate the grief reaction" of adolescents to the deaths of their friends. Lisa Burress, for example, had dated Joe Major for six months before his death...