Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hobart, the capital of Australia's island state of Tasmania, and its eastern suburbs. Next morning, as some 30,000 suburbanites set out for work, they found that the former three-minute commute over the bridge had turned into a pilgrimage of an hour and a half at rush hours, requiring a detour of 33 miles...
Most businessmen are still basking in the bright glow of second-quarter gains. Leading the earnings parade of manufacturers were the automakers, who were helped by price boosts on the 1976s and an unforeseen rush by buyers to larger, option-filled models that return a fatter profit than smaller cars. General Motors and Chrysler both announced record earnings for the period, $909 million and $155 million respectively; G.M., after paying its stockholders 60? a share in March, will move its third-quarter dividend back up to 85?. Ford's earnings quadrupled over the same period last year...
...Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker as his vice-presidential running mate. By midweek, the word was flowing in by telephone and telex from our correspondents: Reagan had angered conservatives; yet he had failed to attract moderates. His bizarre gamble had not worked. TIME's editors decided that the sudden rush of events demanded cover treatment. With that, Senior Writer Ed Magnuson quietly began work on his 64th TIME cover story...
...Boston physicians of "Leaden Bullets," to be swallowed for "that miserable Distemper which they called the Twisting of the Guts." By the early 18th century, there were only two drugs known to be specific: cinchona bark for malaria, and mercury as an antisyphilitic agent. Dr. Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia (one of four physicians to sign the Declaration of Independence) used bloodletting so extensively that even his colleagues marveled at the survival of his patients. Thomas Jefferson said in 1807, "The patient ... sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine...
...Arabs are everywhere, their tarbooshes and burnooses as ubiquitous as brollies in the rush-hour crowds. By day they can be found pressing three-deep against the counters at Selfridge's or Harrods, the women often swathed in black gowns and veils, the men in Arab robes topped by checked sports jackets. At sunset they parade along Hyde Park. Toward midnight they filter out of Mirabelle, the Hard Rock Cafe or other favored Mayfair restaurants to stroll over to one of their discotheques or gambling clubs...