Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...across the country, headlines like these have signaled the sudden rush of a new technology that promises to leave a lasting imprint on the practice of education at Harvard and other universities...
Then we were flying at 75 m.p.h., screeching around corners and dodging late rush-hour traffic to get to a reported car theft...
...initial rush proved unnecessary, as the suspicious auto theft proved to be a sidewalk car wash, not a strip--down. In the next hour, though, we found two stripped automobiles and had them towed. Some had been stolen that same day, but we didn't catch anyone...
...more baseball than Willard has seen fit to include. She certainly touches on an awful lot of other things, and perhaps it is because she does tackle so much that the leisurely. Saturday-afternoon-pickup air of the first three-quarters of the book evaporates in a rush as it tumbles to its conclusion...
...letter of introduction from Oxford to the local authorities ("a talisman of medieval- looking splendour"), the Englishmen persevere--and suffer as advertised. Insects attack them everywhere ("I covered myself in SAS anti-fungus powder until my erogenous zone looked like meat chunks rolled in flour"), hordes of leeches rush across the jungle floor to greet them, and cicadas, "megaphones built into their bodies," keep up a decibel level "way over the limit allowed in discotheques...