Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Greatest Aerobic Rush Nearly 1 million Americans discovered the high-speed thrill of "blading." Riding high on roller skates with a single line of polyurethane wheels rather than the old double-row configuration, enthusiasts wove through traffic at speeds of up to 20 m.p.h., terrifying pedestrians and drivers alike...
...Fastest Rush to the Mainstream Rap music began as something def from the ghetto, got sanitized by b-boys like M.C. Hammer and Vanilla Ice, and quickly became a we're-so-hip cliche even on TV commercials. As they say, it's not comin' correct...
...trainee engineer making his first passenger run was at the controls of the Amtrak Night Owl as it approached Boston's Back Bay Station at the morning rush hour. Tripping signals about a mile from a curve, the train, carrying roughly 200 people, was moving at 91.8 m.p.h. When the overnighter from Washington reached the curve, it should have slowed down to 30 m.p.h. The trainee, Richard Abramson, 41, told investigators that he hit the brakes three times before the curve, but they failed to slow the 120-ton locomotive. Willis Copeland, a veteran engineer supervising Abramson, tried the emergency...
Outside, two men leave the pub, hoping to escape the rush of students. One of them, clad in a plaid flannel shirt with a bushy mustache and beard, stands near a red pick-up truck. He says he's leaving the Bow--it's getting too crowded...
This audience recognizes them and, more, believes them, cheering, beckoning Beattie back to the stage until clapping and tears subside. Women rush to her, clutching her best-selling Codependent No More, thrusting worn copies toward the author for an inscription. "I'm codependent. Your book saved my life." "My mom gave me the book when I started treatment. It's my bible...