Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was the familiar cry from Doorkeeper William ("Fishbait") Miller: "Mistah Speak-ah! The President of the United States!" There was the rush of applause, the flutter of outstretched arms in the aisle as Lyndon Johnson wove his way toward the rostrum, the predictable burst of foolishness from the Speaker, from whom tradition demands an excessive introduction: ". . . great pleasure . . . highest privilege . . . distinguished, personal honor-of presenting to you the President of the United States...
Rarely in history has public opinion reacted so spontaneously and with such fury. In Detroit, Mayor Jerome Cavanaugh and Michigan's Governor George Romney led a protest parade of 10,000 people. In Chicago, demonstrators blocked rush-hour traffic in the Loop. Nearly 2,000 people marched in Toronto, 1,000 in Union, N.J., 1,000 in Washington. In California and Wisconsin, in Connecticut and New York, citizens streamed onto the streets to express their rage...
Furious at Leaks. After that reaction, Johnson was not about to rush into an other press conference. Now, in private, he mimics his needlers in the press corps, denounces them as "crybabies," "bellyachers" and worse. He has given up his walking press conferences, he says, because reporters are reluctant to separate the seat of their pants from their chairs...
Sharing the Dollar. Why the rush? The buoyant economy has encouraged Americans to spend their profits on pleasure. Airlines fostered the boom by increasing the number of flights and decreasing fares (the lowest seasonal round-trip rate from New York to Jamaica is $44 less than last year's). The main reason for the boom, and perhaps the simplest, is that winter vacations to sunny climates have become more and more a vital part of American life...
...precisely like a girl whose million-dollar assets have been frittered away on gaudy clothes and dime-novel escapades. So she goes out to a friend's hacienda, dolls up in traditional tienta costume, falls off her horse and gets gored by a young bull. Moments after they rush her to the hospital, her marriage is saved. Only Love is lost, but probably no one will notice...