Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eight other government battalions were in the area and unengaged with the enemy. But when called upon to rush them in, Vietnamese staff officers chain-smoked the afternoon away engrossed in their maps, deaf to American pleas. The pinned-down Rangers had no alternative but to retreat across the river under cover of darkness. The Viet Cong regiment, which might well have been annihilated, escaped, leaving behind five captured Rangers tied by their feet to trees with their heads hacked...
Americans are eating more meat than ever before, and the $14 billion meat-packing industry is patting its tummy with satisfaction. This year Americans will consume more than 32 billion Ibs. of beef, pork, veal and lamb, or 170 Ibs. per person. The meat packers are ready for the rush. The past few years have been lean ones for the industry, which suffered from inefficiency, slowness to change, and overcapacity created by allegiance to outdated methods of processing and marketing. But the meat packers have learned to adjust to a new era of supermarketing and new methods of livestock-raising...
...biggest impetus to construction lately has been the headlong rush of investors to throw up new apartment buildings in cities, suburbs and practically anywhere they would fit. This eagerness pushed apartment construction up 19% last year, but caused some overbuilding in such cities as New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Houston. One result: apartment building can be expected to slow up this year, holding the growth of all urban residential construction-which accounts for more than a third of all money spent on building-to a 3% increase v. 8% last year. Construction by businesses, which accounts...
...audience as ingenious lighting plays over them to orchestrate speeches and scenes like music, so that the playgoer feels that he is experiencing the thematic flow of the hero's life -lyrical, staccato, abrasive, brassy and blue. There are remarkable impressionistic renderings of states of feeling: the disembodied rush of a transcontinental train sucked through the vacuum of night, the empty-souled writhings of some Venice Beach bopniks. But in the end, the hero still seems incapable of drawing the bow of manhood...
...about 20% of all annual retail sales, are being taken by retailers as a good omen for 1964, and a sign that merchants can expect to set more records this spring, when Easter comes earlier than usual (March 29). At the beginning of this year's Christmas rush, merchants noted a fall-off in sales after the President's death, and when the crowds set forth again, they showed more restraint and less frivolity than in many years. But people still had to buy gifts for wives and husbands, children and relatives-and quickly made up for lost...