Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knows that some people don't like it, and lately the orchestra management has been trying to improve its relations with the community, especially with students. Open rehearsals, student tickets, last-minute rush seats have brought the orchestra to a larger audience in the past few years, and improved its public image. But the BSO, like the Bruins, almost always sells out, and, unlike the Bruins, it doesn't offer its fans the option of watching performances on color TV in the privacy of their homes. One way the orchestra makes its music available to the people...
...like some kind of addiction. I couldn't help myself: I would see some new absurdity-now from the Spartans, now from the Helots-and an impression would come, and the clowning despair would rush over me, the total indifference to anything but the monstrous foolishness of human beings, and in a flash-or a giggle-I was at them. As my idiocy became familiar, it became safe. Children began to mock my eccentricities, or follow after me, mimicking my hobble. At last I had taught them something...
...cities must recognize that if they want to save the downtown stores, they will have to provide tax relief." Hudson's recently started closing its downtown store earlier at night because of waning business, but its suburban branches have begun to stay open on Sundays to accommodate a rush of shoppers...
...prominent California Democrat who was ousted last year by President Nixon, concedes that the low margin requirement on the stock is "a weird arrangement." Still, Lapin maintains that Fannie Mae has become so vital to home building that "if it got into real trouble the Government would have to rush in and bail it out." Considering the increasing political importance of housing, Lapin is probably right. Compared with their chances for a quick killing, Fannie Mae stock speculators are exposed to minimal risk. At a time when Washington may be called on to impose stricter standards of behavior...
...involved three people for 30 seconds," Fox said. "The squeeze was a little harder than the subway during rush hour, but easier than getting on the Waverly...