Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trail. The only important change from pre-cease-fire days, in fact, seemed to be that the North Vietnamese were driving southward in broad daylight, since they were no longer fearful of U.S. air strikes. The trail, says one American analyst, "looks like the New Jersey Turnpike during rush hour...
...Kraus plan is the response to that demand, and most Union members would agree that its basic framework is an improvement over the old system. The plan ends the unstable arrangement under which graduate students would rush about at the beginning of each term to secure a teaching fellowship and thereby stave off financial disaster. The plan calculates need according to a specified formula, and promises to fund all first-and second-year graduate students to within $1000 of the calculated need. (The $1000 gap Union meetings dwindled to 20 to grants awarded in the old way by departments...
...entire course of the championships locked in a very tight head-to-head fight for the runner-up spot, began the evening with just nine points separating the second-day leader Harvard from fourth-place N.C. State. The Wolfpack, faltering early in the final evening, closed with a rush, picking up a crucial first in the 3-meter dive and a runaway record win in the 400-yd. freestyle relay to catch the Crimson at the finish...
...Young Mexicans are excited to the point where the authorities may not even allow Castaneda's books to be released there in Spanish translation. Said one Mexican student who is himself pursuing Don Juan: "If the books do appear, the search for him could easily turn'into a gold-rush stampede...
Headlong Trouble. The biggest trouble was that the Soviets were in a headlong rush to motorize; they insisted that the plant be in operation within three years from the day that ground was broken in January 1967. The country had only a fledgling auto industry at the time, so the plant had to have its own foundries and forges, and turn out its own spare parts and accessories. Its three assembly lines were to produce a single model based on the Fiat 124. But to negotiate Russia's rutted rural roads, the chassis had to be redesigned to ride...