Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Palace. He issued invitations to Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais and Socialist Leader François Mitterrand-top leftists who have not been inside the presidential palace since Giscard's election. They both agreed to come for consultations, as did Left Radical President Robert Fabre. Leading the rush to the Elysée were the heads of some of France's biggest trade unions, who had also been invited. They included André Bergeron of the 850,000-member Force Ouvrière and Edmond Maire, chief of the Socialist-leaning C.F.D.T., the 805,000-member Democratic Labor...
Since its opening in January, the office has concentrated on gathering background information and centralizing previously-collected data. The temptation to rush into more specific research projects is great, Bailey says, but "if we rush in, people will be able to criticize the results and therefore ignore the results." She also senses her office may find "there are many relatively small-scale things that could be done to make Harvard a more comfortable environment...
...Shipman: "Suddenly I couldn't breathe. I started screaming at Doug to get the hell out of there." Added Lister: "I was spitting up blood. I felt like I was breathing flames. I thought I was going to die." Lister managed to put the ambulance into reverse and rush away. Others were not so lucky: eight people died and 50 were injured...
After Canada's House of Commons installed television cameras and started recording its proceedings for the tube last fall, the tailors and barbers of Ottawa found themselves with an unexpected rush of parliamentary business. Members bought pastel-colored suits to brighten their images on the air. They had their hair styled. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau reverted to the Caesar cut that he wore in his triumphant 1968 campaign...
...built up a lot of excitement, and we kept it going until the next heat. They came down, and it was really a rush, they were terrific. Everybody else on the side of the mountain was cheering for them, too, even though they didn't know who they were...