Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Away. To save the earth, they decided, it would be necessary to launch a salvo of hydrogen bombs into the asteroid's path. To loft the warheads, the U.S. could rush to completion five Saturn 5 Apollo rockets now under construction and build four more from scratch. A second Saturn launch pad now under construction at Cape Kennedy should be completed, and a third could be built. The Atomic Energy Commission would be requested to assemble six 100-megaton H-bomb warheads, the minimum size necessary to attack Icarus effectively...
...summer's rush of tourists began to flood into Paris last week, attracted always by its reputation for high style, fine restaurants and magnificent art collections. But as any seasoned traveler knows, there is more to France than just Paris. And already Francophiles were circling on their maps those little-known, remote museums that, as the Guide Michelin says of its top restaurants, are "well worth the trip...
This demonstrates on a grand scale a problem with all musical activity here -- opera, symphony and chamber music alike. In the rush to make his mark on the music scene, the Harvard musician tends to aim high, choosing to perform works guaranteed to get him one up on his fellow musicians and impress the dickens out of the general community. Very often there is more interest in the idea of the thing rather than in obtaining the best musical result. All too often one gets the impression the projects' progenitors had one of those "hey-wouldn't-it-be-fantastic...
...invitation. "We are in danger of becoming an explosive and suddenly chauvinistic nation," he wrote. "Every serious artist knows that he cannot enjoy public celebration without making public commitments." Lowell was pleased by the "hundreds of letters" of congratulations that ensued, but he was not prepared for a sudden rush of demands for his support from dissident groups. He has refused virtually all of them, for essentially he is an intensely private...
...have spent an exam period evening with a typewriter and a pile of Thoroughbred Records and decided to call it for Damascus. His Preakness was beautiful. Approaching the stretch turn, he was second to last and then, according to the official chart, "circled the field with a mighty rush" and "established a commanding lead." Coming from the invariably monosyllabic chart writer, that is poetry. Proud Clarion, despite a less than perfect ride by jockey Bobby Ussery, also started to make a good move in the stretch, and for a split second it looked like it might be the Derby...