Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems to me that we are experiencing a modern-day Gold Rush. My only hope is that Alaska does not become another California...
...people of Illinois have been treated in recent weeks to the spectacle of their state lawmakers engaging in their annual rite of spring: making "goddamn fools" of themselves, in the apt words of one representative, as they rush to complete the legislative agenda before the adjournment scheduled for June 30. Since some 4,500 measures had been introduced, legislators were forced to meet nights and weekends. As tempers flared, medics outside the chambers tested blood pressure, and sent two people to the hospital. One representative introduced a motion to permit members time each day for conjugal visits, either with their...
...when Margaux arrived in New York last fall, they pooled their resources, rented a grungy Upper East Side pad and settled down to construct the Big Deal. Frequent reassuring trips to the Palm Court were necessary. "If things began to cave in or if we were confused, we would rush over there, sit at a table, and suddenly things became clearer," says Errol. Margaux says, "Errol has horns but he's an angel...
...25th Anniversary Report of the Class of '50, he described these years as an "artless." feverish rush going somewhere but, in retrospect, nowhere in an effort to realize my ambition...
...Atwater, with the help of Reporter-Researcher Marta Dorion. Correspondent Christopher Ogden and Photographer Steve Northup toured the state to measure the impact of petroleum-based prosperity on Alaska's life-style and pristine environment. Both of those, they found, were not what they had been in gold-rush days. In Point Barrow, for instance, some of the Eskimos whom Ogden had come to interview turned up with Texas oil lawyers and New York accountants in respectful attendance. "I rode the only dog sled in Barrow," Ogden reports. "It belongs to a white high school teacher. The natives have...