It became widespread as a weed after the second world war, rushing like wildfire through bombsites and revelling in exposed mortar and rubble.
A man who had lost his own son in the Iraq War rushed a young man whose lower legs had been blown off to the tent, and so kept another father from losing his son.
Many Sunnis, to whom Mr Hussein gave stolen Shia and Kurdish property, have now themselves been violently dispossessed.After America removed Mr Hussein, and dismantled the vestiges of his state, including his army, Shia militias (some of which had fought on the enemy side in the Iraq-Iran war) rushed in to fill the void.
But as traditional apples disappeared from supermarkets, an even worse fate befell the traditional orchards in which they had been grown: they had been grubbed up all over the country as part of the post-war rush to intensive farming.
In the years before the post-World War II rush to the suburbs, the neighborhood around the six-corner intersection of North, Milwaukee and Damen Avenues on the city's Near Northwest Side was a classic urban retail hub.
President Obama and the Democrats should wave the white flag in their strawman war on Rush Limbaugh.
"The first time I stood here, where someone had killed someone, all the war came rushing back to me," Hallak said, caressing the bullet holes in the walls.
Up front, an elderly man, who said he was a war veteran, rushed the door, which was guarded by two policemen.
Talking about it with Sabri, I thought of my colleague Dexter Filkins's description in his book, "The Forever War," of rushing to downtown Manhattan to witness the Twin Towers collapsing.
On hearing of the Spanish-American War, Burnham rushed home to volunteer his services, but the war had ended before he could get to the fighting.
These two men were the leading figures in the Bone Wars, a rush of fossil speculation and explosive rivalry that even extended to destroying fossils to prevent the other man from getting ahead.
