Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alarums-came in the gold market. Speculators poured buy orders into the eight-nation London gold pool. In a few hours, they snapped up an estimated $23 million worth of the metal. On Thanksgiving, sales not only shot up to a record $112 million in London, but the gold rush also spread to Paris and Zurich. The pressure, mainly from Europe and the Middle East, continued to mount on Friday, but the pool dug into its reserves to provide enough gold to satisfy all purchasers. France, in what some money men regarded as part of Charles de Gaulle...
...When I was in college I couldn't take pass-fail courses in my field, and I thought it was pretty silly," Robert P. Levine, acting chairman of the Biology Department said. "Now, I'm not sure. Some toughly graded courses might be hurt by a rush of pass-fail students. Right now, I'm confused...
...rush to rid itself of the weight of empire, Britain has often bestowed independence on lands that had no business accepting it. Botswana, for example, is an empty but now sovereign desert, Gambia a wriggle of jungle riverbank, and the Maldives a spatter of coral atolls mostly inhabited by starfish. Few lands, however, have been so ill-prepared to rule themselves as the Federation of South Arabia, which Britain announced last week will become independent by the end of November...
...scrubby wilds near Fort Lauderdale, he wanders untrammeled through woods and dunes, killing king snakes, munching Powerhouse candy bars. He regards mysteries of life with the eerie moral neutrality of boyhood. "Suddenly two of the birds rush at each other in the air. Quick as a wink, one of them is gone. Swallowed. A single yellow feather drifts down to settle on the moss. I laugh, delighted by the purity of it." In a familiar childhood rite, he discovers the intricate magic of a yo-yo that he has bought from two Oriental itinerant salesmen, and learns the various movements...
...first time, early in the second period, a fierce pass rush induced Phillips to throw the ball away, and the second time deBettencourt collared Phillips for a two yard loss on fourth and four from the Harvard...