Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This unexpected influx created much confusion. The police had been intent on restraining the bystanders before the marchers arrived at the hotel, but suddenly backed off and let them all rush forward...
...freshman who stayed until the end, Tim Rush, said after the audience had dwindled considerably, 'It says something about our class that they all went to Pusey's tea but didn't come here. They're snowed under and are willing to let others guide their education...
Four-Time Winner. Bob Stanfield, 53, a lawyer by training, comes from a rich old Nova Scotia family that made its fortune in knitting mills; winter long Johns, one of its products, were known during the Yukon gold rush as "Stanfield's unshrinkables." An unassuming pragmatist, he took over Nova Scotia's Conservative leadership in 1947, when the party did not hold a single seat in the provincial legislature. Nine years later he came to power, and has since won three elections. When fellow party members suggested that he run for Diefenbaker's job, Stanfield at first...
...hurriedly analyzed the einsteinium target after the bombardment. To their surprise, they discovered a minute amount-fewer than 30,000 atoms-of a mysterious and heavy isotope, which they later identified as mendelevium 258. Even stranger, the isotope-unlike many of its transuranium counterparts -appeared to be in no rush to disappear. The California scientists eventually determined that its half life (the time in which half the atoms of an element decay) was nearly two months. This compared, for example, with only eight seconds for lawrencium 257, until now the heaviest of the known atoms...
...Festival, and Pianist Byron Janis, 39, was staring straight into the jaws of une véritable débâcle. His new white dinner jacket, a double-breasted poem in paper limned especially for him by Haute Couturier Pierre Cardin, had proved a grabber in the armpits. "Rush me another," pled the pianist. "I have to move my arms...