Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very fact that the U.S. was a nation only in name produced a fervent drive to create national symbols that sometimes obscured Jefferson's aspirations. The drive was fueled by waves of immigrants rushing to a virgin continent that offered fabulous opportunities for self-advancement. The gold-rush spirit animated Americanism, the country's unestablished religion. The whole public-school system was aimed at Americanization. Noah Webster's spelling book taught American English to Germans, Poles, Swedes, Italians-and declared that "Europe is grown old in folly, corruption and tyranny." Geography was American, and America was bigger...
...level of instruction in Mississippi, left much to be desired, McGuire maintained that similar conditions exist in many states. Said McGuire: "I am not condemning or praising, but I am saying that the burden of proof is now on driver education to prove it is effective." The headlong rush to invest millions of dollars in driver-education courses should be halted, he argued, and a small portion of the money spent on further tests to assess their value...
...John Lindsay for President after his walks through Harlem helped prevent riots last summer. Buckley wanted to know how this equipped him for the presidency: "Is the Secretary of State properly engaged in walking up and down the Biafran frontier, grinning and winking at the disputants? Would he then rush off to Wuhan, there to quiet the impulses of the Red Guards...
...anything but arbitrary, unjust, and offensive. Punishing a handful of randomly selected scapegoats will stir, not deter, rancorous anti-University protests. It will weaken, not encourage, respect for the rules. Most important, it would simply be unreasonable, and there is no compelling reason for the University to rush headlong now into harsh action...
When Geis cannot find a manuscript to promote, he orders one up to specification. His latest product is a novel, The Exhibitionist, by Henry Sutton. Geis has already sold the paperback rights for $250,000 and has printed 90,000 hard-cover copies in anticipation of the great rush...