Word: rushing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...controlled the ensuing draw, and kept the ball in the Radcliffe end. The fleet Cochran made one final length-of-the-field rush with 20 seconds to go but was broken up before she could get a shot off and time...
...specified in long-term business contracts, interest rates on bonds, savings and mortgages. Even taxes are included: a person whose salary rises 7% while prices are also going up 7% incurs no greater tax liability. In theory, nobody loses, and inflationary psychology is broken: there is no reason to rush out and buy now because prices may rise tomorrow by 7%; if they do, so will wages, pensions, welfare payments and the interest on savings accounts...
...schools (Boston College, Harvard, M.I.T., the University of Massachusetts and Northeastern University) took no action at all against the students involved. Last week the paper printed a thorough compendium of faculty salaries at more than 1,500 colleges and universities-a boon to potential job seekers in the current rush for fall openings...
...instant later, I saw three policemen rush over to him. they bend over him and I heard them ask if he was hurt. The student next began to scream very loudly, "They are killing me. Stop them. Help me." He rolled around on the ground while the policemen watched...
Fest punctuates his chronological drama with a kind of intermission-"interpolations," he calls them-in which he examines such historical topics as the "great dread" that afflicted Germans during the chaotic Weimar era. Hitler's foolish and criminal rush into war ("War is life," he said), and the Führer's relationship to the forces of German history. The author rejects the line of thought that explains Hitler by tracing the Führer's philosophical antecedents back through centuries of Teutonic mysticism and blood-dimmed sense of divine mission. He also rejects the simple-minded...