Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play, Evrard sees her production turn into a fiasco. When Marat is stabbed, the passions of the inmates erupt. They assault one another, pummel away at the nuns, rush at the bars which separate them from the audience and clamor for freedom. This is how the mob acts when it rises up in revolution. We are all maniacs. Weiss seems to say, and society is our asylum...
...same time, we hope the Democratic Party will also view the Reagan mandate for what it is rather than rush to embrace a more conservative agenda in a singleminded quest to regain the White House. American voters--even many of those who gave Reagan the thumbs up on Tuesday--still support Democratic stances on many of the issues of the day. As of now, there is no evidence that a Democratic lurch toward the right is necessary--let alone morally justifiable...
...most part, though, the campaign was a fairly shallow personality contest. It had a maddeningly evasive quality about it. It was as if television news, with its gift for dramatic fragments of reality, made Dada arrangements of each day's history. The rush of images seemed to give the entire political process a ruinously short attention span. As the English poet George Meredith once prayed, "More brain, O Lord, more brain...
Rajiv Gandhi had been driving toward the last meeting of his campaign tour in West Bengal when a police Jeep intercepted his Mercedes to deliver a message: "There's been an accident in the house. Return immediately to Delhi." Instantly, Rajiv told his aides to rush to the nearest airport. At 12:30 p.m., while Rajiv waited for a helicopter to take him to Calcutta, he switched on his transistor radio to hear the BBC relay the news that his mother was in critical condition. Some of the Congressmen in his party burst into tears, but Rajiv told them...
...Gorgoni went from goat to hero in a hurry. The Eliot offense was stymied on three plays, and with Chapman deep in his own end zone to punt, Gorgoni was ready to rush...