Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third-and-11 from their own 35, Larry Brown and Co. were down to their last hurrah. Under a fierce rush, Brown threw a clutch completion to Horner angling across the field for a first down. From there, Brown uncorked a bullet to John MacLeod in traffic. MacLeod snared the pass at his 22-yd. line, caromed off a pair of defenders and was finally ridden out of bounds...
...farmers rush to gather in a bin-busting harvest, their fortunes have improved. The prices that farmers received averaged 23% higher in September than a year earlier, while the prices they paid for tools, fertilizer and consumer goods?including food?rose only 10%. Most crops have been bountiful enough this year to cause even retail food prices to level off after a frightening winter-spring rise. The Department of Agriculture predicts record 1978 crops of corn, soybeans, hay and fall potatoes. Corn is so abundant that Midwestern farmers are storing it on streets, playgrounds and tennis courts...
...yells the platoon commander. The troops rush into an open field. Gunfire cracks in the air. The Marines capture the helicopter pad in ten minutes. While Duden helps guard the perimeter, the others disarm the P.O.W.s and search them for coded messages. "If we capture a female aggressor, we're not allowed to search her," Duden explains. "That's one concession they had to make...
...such an election, the biracial Democratic Turnalle Alliance, which South Africa created and still dominates, would be virtually assured of victory. Third World nations regard such a voting arrangement as worthless-a view increasingly shared in the West. "You don't try to rig an election or rush it," said British Foreign Secretary David Owen. Botha's angry reply, reportedly delivered in a tense negotiating session: "Don't you try to lecture me about democracy...
...would hope to stay here a few more years, till I get sick," he said one recent afternoon as a rush of students entered and left the library during the ten minutes between classes. A lot of students hope he remains at Lamont a long time, too; in these days of bureaucratic rules and regulations, it's nice to have someone who bends the rules a bit here--but carefully--now and then...