Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...present, mining or drilling in Antarctica's harsh environment is prohibitively costly. But many scientists feel that cheaper technologies may soon become available. Then the treaty could fall apart as old claims are revived and there is a rush to divide Antarctica's spoils. "If that happens," says one pessimistic U.S. official, "it could make the fishing wars off Iceland look as innocent as a schoolyard scuffle...
...They're not going to shoot Santa Claus," said an official of Gump's department store in San Francisco in the midst of the Christmas buying rush. And indeed, even before the gift wrapping had been torn from millions of presents, it was apparent that Christmas sales across the nation had exceeded all but the rosiest predictions. The surge might give the economic recovery some new momentum...
...Member Louise Day Hicks, charged that the takeover "smacks of a totalitarian type of government." She joined others in declaring Friday "a day of mourning" for Southie's lost freedom and called for a complete white boycott of the school. White antibusing motorists observed the day by blocking rush hour traffic...
...Hills, a bit of Wyoming and up into shy-range country at Montana, through Idaho and Washington to Seattle the road continues this way, but before Rochester the biggest thrill is crossing the border into New York State. Then you know you're going home. Not that any sudden rush of sentimental elation sweeps over the resident of western New York at the tollbooth, but it's just different, immediately, for Massachusetts has a tidy feeling all its own that can make the Berkshires seem like Cambridge disguised in trees. The BMW's and Connecticut plates of college kids...
Heart attack. You are walking down a not-too-busy Cambridge street. Suddenly you notice a young man, "a typical college-age student in appearance," collapse to the ground, "clutching his heart" and "in obvious pain." Alarmed, you rush forward to assist...