Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other action as Congress entered its closing days' rush...
...Pentagon Mess" that saw the U.S. lag behind Russia in technological progress, the "Vicuna Coat Case" involving White House Staff Chief Sherman Adams and influence-buying Boston Millionaire Bernard Goldfine. But last week, about ready to head for the hustings, Capitol Hill Democrats were dismayed to find that the rush of world events had drastically cut into their ammunition supply. Items...
Thus last week the U.S., in a mixed-up, 20%-above-normal, Christmas-like post office rush, anticipated the increase of postal rates from 3? to 4? (lavender-colored Lincolns or gold-colored Bolivars) for first-class letters, from 2? to 3? for postcards, from 6?: to 7? for domestic airmail. Richer by $450 million revenue, Postmaster General Summerfield rosily called it "the beginning of the greatest period of postal progress in American history." Epilogue to an era, in the letters-to-the-editor column of the Chicago Daily News: "I have nothing to say, but I thought...
...Australia's 20-year-old Herb Elliott got spiked in the getaway rush, encountered stiff head winds in the homestretch, still managed to win the British Empire Games mile at Cardiff, Wales in 3:59-his seventh under-four-minute mile...
...Geneva hotelkeepers, at the peak of the summer rush and with hotels filled, said such a meeting would be impossible before the end of the month...