Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of the drums, including the smaller of the big drums, had been damaged before they could be saved. Destruction in this case appears to have been caused more by the general rush of firemen combatting the blaze in the basement than by the fire...
...Death to the Cathedral" recalls the story of a Catholic who, after seeing Manhattan's Cardinal Spellman rush into the private office of famed real estate man William Zeckendorf, gasped, "Oh my gosh, there goes St. Patrick's Cathedral...
Donner admits he does not fully understand the reasons for the small-car vogue, but he is in no rush to order basic changes in G.M.'s product line. "I don't know for sure what it^ means, but I can tell you this-before we move at G.M., we will be sure. What would you do if you were Chevrolet and had the responsibility for selling a million and a half cars a year...
Russia's Khrushchev and Red China's Mao, meeting in Peking in early August, were accompanied by their defense ministers-a fact that led to a rush of speculation. Gist of the rumors: Communist China was again preparing to attack Formosa or the Nationalist-held offshore island chains of Quemoy and Matsu. Later events gave some substance to the speculation: Communist MIG-17s and Nationalist F-86s and F-845 began tangling more often above Formosa Strait; Communist gunners began to pound the islands, last week put down thousands of shells in two hours of the heaviest bombardment...
...spring, it had seemed certain that the veteran starting staff of Warren Spahn, Lew Burdette. Gene Conley, Bob Rush and Bob Buhl would soon put Milwaukee out front. But while the Yankees ran off and out of reach of the rest of the American League by late May. the Braves bumbled along into August without showing championship form. After a fine start, Spahn ran into a temporary slump. Burdette could not manage to win consistently. Conley has yet to win a game. Rush did not finish a game in twelve straight starts. Buhl came up with a shoulder injury...