Word: rushing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rush to get the children out of Viet Nam, there was often no great concern about technicalities like proper identification or release forms from parents. Recalls Bobby Nofflet, who worked with the U.S. AID agency in Saigon in those hectic days: "Three, six, nine babies would be left in front of the agency, mothers begging us to take them. There were large sheaves of papers and batches of babies. Who knew which belonged to which?" Children also were dying of malnutrition in the orphanages at the time. "When you see that, you don't care what goes...
Roosevelt Island's aerial tramway will operate from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. daily, with departures every five minutes at rush hours. Last week Senior Writer Michael Demarest made a round-trip crossing on one of the two red cable cars. His report...
...have had little support from blacks or poor people. You are not viewed as a leader who is ready to rush to help the neglected or poverty-stricken. Is that a fair view...
...aimed at frustrating Los Angeles-area motorists into leaving their cars at home. Two lanes-one in each direction-of the busy Santa Monica Freeway were marked with diamond-shaped signs and set aside for buses and cars carrying three or more people during the morning and evening rush hours. All other vehicles were kept to the slower-moving lanes. Purpose of the plan: to persuade Californians to form car pools or to use Los Angeles' regional commuter bus system...
...Adlington, in his 1950 work "Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Inquiry," finds the key to Lawrence's desert escapades in narrow psychologism resembling this: Lawrence was illegitimate and dominated by a moralistic mother, and grew up a virginal bookworm lost somewhere in his studies of the Middle Ages. His rush into the Arab nationalist uprising in the 1910s was a subconscious effort to let loose his sexual-aggressive tendencies. But the consequences of this move for the innocent Lawrence were traumatic. He underwent a rude sexual awakening when a Turk captured and sodomized him at the height of the rebellion...