Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...snap to Eli punter Don Mahlke seemed fine, but it bounced off his hands--and the Harvard rush swarmed over him before he could recover and get a kick away. Harvard took over 10 yards away from the Bulldog endzone...
...knee is all better," Cleary said. "He didn't push it or rush it this summer. He's in good shape...
...response to acute infection is also immediate. Like a fire, the incipient infection sets off alarms that alert the immune system to bring out its defensive weapons. It is an awesome arsenal. First, natural killer cells and the Pac-man-like macrophages rush to the scene to gobble up infected cells. After about a week, if this first-tier defense fails to control the threat, says Fields, "you bring out the guided missiles." These are antibodies -- produced by B cells upon the order of helper T cells -- that are custom-designed to home in on certain antigens, distinctively shaped proteins...
...insurer had been counting on a lifeline from Congress. The House and Senate passed bills that would have authorized the FSLIC to raise up to $25 billion in the capital markets. But in their rush to adjourn before next week's elections, the lawmakers neglected to reconcile the two different versions of the legislation. Edwin Gray, the chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which oversees the FSLIC, had warned the lawmakers that a bailout was urgently needed. Gray said he was "deeply disappointed" by the impasse but vowed that his agency would "do its level best" to manage...
...There must have been a lot of passengers affected," said the MBTA official, "especially with the World Series going on, but we got the trains going in time for rush hour...