Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...free counsel. Two years later, the court had a chance to extend this right to people accused of misdemeanors, but for unspecified reasons it chose to pass up the case. If the Warren Court feared to tread such ground, could the more cautious Burger Court be expected to rush in? Last week it did just that-unanimously. From now on, said Justice Douglas, "no person may be imprisoned for any offense unless he was represented by counsel at his trial...
What happened? The traditional Japanese family system, in which parents lived with their children, gradually broke down in the aftermath of World War II. In the rush to the cities for jobs, and the severe housing shortage that followed, many children were simply unable or unwilling to care for their elderly relatives. During the past five years, average family size has shrunk from 4.9 members to 3.7. At the same time, life expectancy has risen sharply since the war (46.9 to 69.2 for men, 49.6 to 74.7 for women). The result is fewer children to care for more and more...
...Roberta was playing for the Sunday school; at age eleven she was sitting in for Mom at the 11 o'clock service. She entered Howard University on a partial music scholarship at 15, and at 20 was teaching music in Washington junior high schools. After school she would rush home for a nap, then play at Mr. Henry's Georgetown branch until...
...campaign began, antitobacco fervor swept through Mauriac. Gaily colored banners proclaiming IT is POSSIBLE TO STOP SMOKING, EMANCIPATE YOURSELF IN FIVE DAYS began to brighten the dreary walls of lava stone buildings. Merchants reported a rush on licorice drops, peanuts, chewing gum, after-dinner mints and other tobacco substitutes. A man of God?his own flesh too weak to relinquish the weed completely?preached a sermon of support from his pulpit in the town's basilica. "I am not one of the courageous 155," acknowledged Father Leon Dumas. "But I have rationed myself down from ten to five cigarettes...
Well, no, he isn't. But carnography's adrenal rush, quickened pulse rate, and readying of muscles for action are nearly as effective as pornography's sexual flush in blocking out all other emotional and intellectual reactions. This monotonous, mechanical simplification is why porno and carno are properly held in contempt...