Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stockholm the Royal Government did not of course know that Ivar Kreuger was going to commit suicide, but they had taken precautionary steps. If anything should happen (and there were numerous "anythings" in addition to suicide the Royal Government was ready to rush through a bill to stabilize Swedish business by granting a moratorium to Kreuger & Toll. When the news came, the Swedish Parliament put through this bill at a secret session, ordered Swedish stock exchanges to remain closed. For years conservative Swedish financiers have frowned on Ivar Kreuger's operations as "too big for Sweden...
...pivot man, was developed into a center of the first rank. Two other men who came under the eyes of the former Harvard leader are W. A. Casey '34, and F. J. Crane '34, two members of the Sophomore class from whom much work in the center of the rush line is to be expected in the next two seasons of Harvard football...
Amid spouting blood and socialite shrieks, Youth Melgar fled the church clutching his neck, and President Sanchez Cerro walked out of the church with a great red stain on his vest. "I require no assistance," said the President, "but rush Colonel Rodriguez to a hospital." The Colonel, chief of the President's Military Household had (it then became known) received in his right thigh a second shot fired by Youth Melgar while the President was drawing his pistol...
...thoughts and memories swarm unnoticed in the drop of intelligence under every man's skull. Unlike bacteria, however, they are brought to a man's attention less by microscopic examination than by some serious shock to the tenor of his ways. Then the myriads of thoughts & memories rush helter-skelter every which way: they have strange encounters, make strange marriages. If they absorb too much of the man's attention...
...accept T. N. T. as a menace to liberal thought is to dignify an extravagant and abusive propaganda beyond its merits. To rush to the defence of Professor Einstein or fight for the good name of "Comrades" Dewey, or Frankfurter with the temperate sword of common sense is to reach for a sledge hammer when one is bitten by a flea. Better by far to accept the "little volume" as a simple gift of the gods sent to relieve the tedium of depression and that irritating Eastern imbroglio. This is after all "that best of all possible worlds" in which...