Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people's money, banks are often blocked by authorities or sued by irate competitors when they try to venture into allied financial fields. Lately, bankers have found a legal loophole that -so far - lets them move into new enterprises. Substantial controversy has grown out of the bankers' rush to take advantage of the situation...
...their rush to relevancy, Harvard, or more particularly the history department, overlooked the fact that black students would be concerned with the "intellectual salt" of a course on the Afro-American experience. Certainly the black students who called Professor Friedel into question took a more direct route than is usually seen at Harvard, and indeed some toes were stepped on. But I'm less concerned that some toes got stepped on (though I must confess a certain chagrin that it happened to a man who has been a constant, even if quiet, advocate for black dignity) than with the fact...
...caught in the rush of events, pulled along by the strength of those people and what they were talking about, and finally moved to anger by what the soldiers were doing with their tear gas and clubs. At one point, I started screaming, nearly hysterical, at the soldiers to stop what they were doing. I wanted to rip off my press badge and join the demonstrators, but I didn't. I felt sick and useless, watching and not acting. I did not know why I could not act. It was probably fear. I thought, and then I realized that...
Robert L. Hall '69 admitted that the problems faced by the course were basically due to the rush involved in setting it up. Still, Hall said, the Ad Hoc Committee had been left with the understanding that guest lecturers would be permitted to give some of the lectures...
...pinch-faced accountant? How pretty was Charlotte Cushman, the American stage's most beguiling actress of the 1840s?Gold was first discovered in California at Sutler's Mill, but who was this German-born idealist, John A. Sutter? And what was his appearance after the gold rush had, paradoxically enough, ruined...