Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drug entered the marketplace last year, it is known as "crack." Dealers sell pellet-size "rocks" of the highly purified cocaine in small plastic vials for prices starting at about $10. Crack is smoked rather than snorted, and a single hit provides a short but intense and practically instantaneous rush. The drug of the moment, it has been reported in at least 13 states, and police in New York and California have been busy busting the "base houses," or "rock houses," where the stuff is sold and smoked. Said William Hopkins of New York's substance abuse services division: "Drug...
...CHRISTMASTIDE IN Cambridge and that means more than the usual rush on Square boutiques--it's time for the annual creche controversy...
...toys are warriors. The success of Kenner's cuddly Care Bears has prompted a toymaking rush to stuffed animals. The friskiest new critters in sales are Pound Puppies, a breed of soft, sad-eyed and bewrinkled hounds packaged in kennel-shaped carrying cases. They come in 80 different patterns of brown, tan, gray and white, and are meant to be "adopted," like Cabbage Patch Kids. The youngster who gets one can send to the manufacturer, Tonka, for a dog tag and ownership papers. Minnesota-based Tonka, which is diversifying from its traditional line of sturdy toy trucks, expects to sell...
...seat on an earlier flight, and when I walked through security, I did not have my usual experience of tripping the metal detector ten times straight and drawing a crowd of police before someone decided the machine was broken. As if this wasn't good enough, the holiday rush only delayed my flight 30 minutes, and I had a window seat a good six rows away from the smoking section...
Reporters and commentators rush to file colorful accounts and declare a victor. The medium encourages these ringside judges to base their scoring on poise, appearance, tone, and rhetorical coups. According to the traditional scorecard, the candidates' make-up men and wardrobe consultants generally prove more critical than their policy advisers...