Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans have always been eager and ready to come to the aid of the needy and distressed. Now let us rush to the rescue of our President beset by income tax difficulties [April 15]. I propose that a fund be established, to be known as "Nickels for Nixon," and the collection forwarded to any of his three places of residence. Time is of the essence...
...subtly molding decisions and events. It is not Ford's doing. It comes from a growing yearning within the political system to get Richard Nixon out of office. It comes from the rush of events that batter the presidency. No one can do much about...
...Southerner by blood, but he wanted the freedom to get loose and do crazy things, and his major if seemingly impossible ambition was to acquire a lot of land in the state which professors at the University of Florida said had the fastest rising population and biggest land development rush in the history of the United States. Kenny took some good natured kidding about how "speedy" he was. He would need all the courage and speed he could muster to get that plot of land before the developers...
...five minutes the Southern Crescent nudges slowly into sight. As the twelve-car Amtrack train sidles into the station, a gravelly voice on the platform speaker rasps out, "Southern Crescent, Amtrack train for New York, arriving from Washington, D.C. and points south, on Track 5. All aboard." In a rush the passengers grab their suitcases, shopping bags, and knapsacks and board the train. The engine starts up again and steam floats up to the steel rafters of the station. After a minute in a cramped tunnel, the train emerges into the early Sunday morning sunshine...
...Caul, an electronic eavesdropper, for once lets someone listen to him. In the confessional he says to the priest, "Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. I have taken newspapers from their racks without paying. I've deliberately taken pleasure in impure thoughts." Then, in a great, garbled rush of feeling, he admits that he is involved in "some work"-work that may bring harm to a couple of young people. He does not wait for the priest to absolve him, however. He just mutters that he will be "in no way responsible...