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Word: rushing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Having my life plotted our for me so nicely gave me the sense of fulfillment for which I was searching. But as my junior year drew to a close, I made a startling realization: I didn't enjoy being pre-med. I was never the first to rush to see the grades when they were posted. I never understood how to synthesize an ester. And I never could calculate the force and friction of an object sliding down a ramp...

Author: By Anne C. Krendl, | Title: Straying From the Path | 6/3/1998 | See Source »

...that didn't stop the comedian from becoming a writer for Saturday Night Live (SNL) and the author of a Rush Limbaugh satire that has sold more than one million copies...

Author: By Tara L. Colon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Funnyman Franken Got Start in Stand-Up | 6/2/1998 | See Source »

...Franken wrote a political satire titled Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot. The book, in which Franken pokes fun at conservative politicians, sold more than a million copies...

Author: By Tara L. Colon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Funnyman Franken Got Start in Stand-Up | 6/2/1998 | See Source »

...past, editors would take a copy of each page of the next morning's paper and rush it to a contractor, who would shoot a negative and then print the page. Now, all The Crimson's work is done on-site at 14 Plympton...

Author: By Joshua L. Kwan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Media Mogul Decherd Places Principles Above Profits | 6/2/1998 | See Source »

Late on May 9, after the sky spies make their passes, technicians rush in vans delivering the five nuclear test devices, cutting corners to get the blasts ready. It normally takes a week to position calibration equipment to measure the yield and effects of the explosions, but the Indians do not have time for all that. "The goal was simply to see if they could pop these things off quickly," a U.S. intelligence official told TIME. "It was more important to them to do it than to get all the appropriate data...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nukes...They're Back | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

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