Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...initiative to control all development within 1,000 ft. of California's entire coastline. To continue any project started after last March 31, or to build any new project, developers would first have to get a permit from one of six new regional commissions. This slows the rush to build on the shore line-and theoretically prevents any environmentally harmful projects...
...themselves, sniffing wintergreen and amyl acetate (which smells like bananas) to see if they could tell the difference. They could. So they decided to give similar tests and to create a cadre of "trained noses." When a citizen complains about an odor, a jury of tested state employees will rush out to sniff and then decide if the law has been violated...
Dick Jauron, Yale's All American running back headed the list of players chosen for the first team. Jauron, the first Yale back to rush for more than 1000 yards in seasons, started in Yale's comeback victory over Harvard this year...
When I exit stage right they rush to the dressing room...
Bearing out this contention is the fact that there is a growing black market for methadone. In many cities, it is being sold by pushers to "virgin" drug abusers seeking the orgasmic reaction, almost as intense as the heroin "rush," that methadone produces when injected into a vein rather than taken orally. Besides, though complicated to manufacture, methadone is cheaper than heroin (perhaps $20 instead of $50 a day) partly because big crime has not-as yet -moved...