Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tasks was second-rate. The continuity of the book is jerky, again a result of Hersey's almost total reliance on direct quotes to tell the story. Irrelevant details abound throughout the book, dissipating most of the interest aroused by the terror of the actual episode. In their rush to publish the book, too, Hersey and his publishers have hurt the book. A myriad of proofing errors mar Hersey's pains-takingly-built facade of honesty...
Both Canada and Trudeau seem to have been preparing for some time to rush into each other's embrace. The reason that Trudeau won so decisively was that he matched both the times and the country's mood. A fresh face in a gallery of stale political portraits, he made no promises at all, offered no pat answers and spoke with a candor that was in refreshing contrast to the pompous rhetoric of the past. He seemed a man neither of the left nor of the right, but a man for the future. His campaign was based...
...unqualified confidence of international businessmen, financiers and speculators. Because investors now prefer bonds floated in German marks to those denominated in U.S. dollars, most mark issues are selling above par, while dollar bonds go at a discount in Europe. During the March gold crisis, there was such a rush to change other money into marks that foreign accounts in West German banks swelled by a net $285 million in a single week...
Backing Off. Then some Tribune staffers began to rebel. Deskman Rex Adkins, a twelve-year man, quit the paper in protest, saying: "I can't work for Knowland any longer." Rush Greenlee, a Negro reporter who had been hired a year ago and who had turned out incisive articles on the ghetto, also resigned with a blast at Knowland. Other staffers laid plans to run a separate ad disavowing the publisher's position. At that point, Knowland backed off a bit and said that no more counterboycott ads would...
...passes that day for 289 yards; that the Crimson lost was not his doing. Yale 31 late in the game with the Zimmerman made one call which justified Yovicsin's praise: it was fourth and one for Harvard on the Elis ahead. The Yale line massed for a rush, but Zimmerman stepped back coolly into the pocket and threw a touchdown strike to Lord beyond the secondary...