Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thinking on the tennis court, where he has been called "an automaton guided by an electric brain." For 77 punishing minutes, before a near-record turnout of 13,541, he resisted a Gonzales onslaught marked by a dazzling echo of the towering serve of yesteryear and a Gonzales rush to the net in an effort to seize the lead. The crowd roared for their longtime favorite Gonzales. Slowly, methodically, Rosewall worked his opponent back to the base lines, until Gonzales yielded 7-5, 7-5, with a disgusted "Oh, no" as his last easy return...
...Printers Boss Bert Powers, who can be counted on not to make things any easier. Understandably anxious for support, the new papers have applied for membership in the New York Publishers Association, from which the Trib resigned last fall. But the association, is not likely to be in any rush to let them in-the last thing the other New York papers want is to be dragged into another strike. And at week's end strike talk was in the air, and strike votes were being taken...
...girl stooges in the first rows led an assault on the stage that was followed by hundreds of screaming fans. Brown flung off his coat, magnanimously tossed his cuff links to the crowd, and was led off draped in a purple cape-only to rush back for another number...
...guaranteeing credits of $87.5 million, Demag is now the major partner in a consortium, also involving French and Belgian firms, that is confident it will wrap up a $150 million contract to build a steel-rolling mill for Red China. It will be the biggest deal yet in the rush among America's allies to open up the Chinese market...
Americans no longer live in a McGuffey world. The patterns of patience and impatience are apt to be paradoxical. A businessman may want to rush to California in five hours and yet wait patiently for a delayed jet takeoff. A scientist may bolt instant coffee at a hurried breakfast and then spend a day of slow, painstaking research in his laboratory. Americans love speed and power on the highway, but they are the most disciplined drivers in the world. While the French, Italian or German driver burns out his batteries with his horn and uses his car as an instrument...