Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Melvin Walker, 43, an unemployed Manhattan maintenance man, started to follow his wife into a subway car during the afternoon rush hour. The doors slammed shut-gripping his right arm between them like a vise. The train began to move. Inside the car, Walker's wife screamed. Walker tugged desperately to free himself. As the train picked up speed, he walked, trotted, then sprinted to keep up. Stumbling, sliding, frantically pulling to free his arm, Walker was dragged to the end of the platform and slammed into a metal rail. As the train entered the tunnel, he was battered...
Setting the Standards. Rosenthal's imaginativeness and enthusiasm infected his staff. All New York City papers naturally carried the story when a group of young civil rights demonstrators stalled rush-hour traffic on New York's Triborough Bridge. But the Times went beyond the event to delve into the motives of the demonstrators, came up with some memorable insights into a youth movement militantly eager to protest not just for civil rights but against practically all of society's ills. Rosenthal's casual observation while apartment hunting, that there seemed to be a lot of unmanly...
...were putting together the cover story, and Painter Bernard Safran was at work on his portrait of Ford's Lee Iacocca. As it is with developing a new car in Detroit, the long process of producing this kind of major story tends to leak out, and other publications rush to get into the act. But we have full confidence in the reader's ability to differentiate between a finished design and the ones that ran into trouble in the wind tunnel...
Swallowed. Seconds earlier, Anchorage, a bustling city of 50,000, was undergoing the hectic but commonplace ritual of the evening rush hour. The downtown business district was filled with people walking and driving home from work. Suddenly the very earth cracked, roared and rolled. An amateur radio operator who was talking from his car to another radio ham in Seattle called out: "My God! What's happening?" The streets, he cried, were rippling like waves and the ground was pitching like an ocean. Streets split into gaping wounds, two of them 12 ft. deep and 50 ft. wide...
...Rosamond Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher took on the Burton. After 24 months as the world's most famous lovers, the seemingly (or unseemlily) inseparable couple made it legal in Montreal at a Unitarian ceremony attended only by eleven of their dearest employees. It was a hush-hush, rush-rush affair, for which they secretly flew up from Toronto-where Dick is doing Hamlet-in a chartered Viscount. By 2:20 that afternoon, here came the bride, all dressed in yellow chiffon, topped by a nuptial hairdo that featured a 34-in., hyacinth-entwined coil of hair. Then, slipping...