Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quiet, rubber-wheeled cars and elegant, uncluttered stations, it is, except for a lingering problem with the air conditioning, a positive pleasure. One year old this week, it has proved so popular that passenger traffic is running 50% higher than expected; the Metro has even generated an extra midday rush as executives have taken up the European practice of going home for lunch. Montreal's present transit strike only points up the Metro's importance: by conservative estimate, 50,000 additional autos are clogging downtown streets because of the strike...
...court hearing, DeGuglielmo argued that the short time remaining before election day would not be enough to allow absentee ballots on the petition to be sent out. This would, he said, disenfranchise the 600 to 2000 Cambridge residents who usually vote by absentee ballot. DeGuglielmo also argued that the rush printing job would violate the City's competitive bidding statutes...
...vital third-period situation, Harvard defenders swarmed under the Light Blue fullback on a fourth-and-one rush from...
Bubbling & Expanding. As the fads rush by and art breaks out of its traditional boundaries, the public whose taste was formed earlier finds itself hard pressed. As Lady Bird Johnson remarked recently, while viewing a Roy Lichtenstein drawing: "I have friends who like it, own it, get excited about it. I keep trying." People who want a little peace and quiet in their art, Mrs. Peter Hurd said last week, are the ones who prefer the work of her brother, Andrew Wyeth. "He's probably painting the remnants of a simpler life," she admitted, and wondered...
...here in Saigon. In this institution American doctors are bringing ever more sophisticated medical care to Vietnamese who only yesterday were being treated by traditional herbals or even acupuncture. In this dreary war, where it seems that the welfare of the Vietnamese individual is so often forgotten in the rush to preserve the independence of the Vietnamese nation, one takes pride in seeing these selfless Americans quietly doing good works in difficult and trying circumstances...