Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last night there was a minor assemblage in the Square, quickly dispersed by the Aptedmen. Rumors flew thick and fast about the number of Cambridge police waiting with everything from laughing gas, to siege guns and field pieces, but nothing was in evidence...
...although a false statement of confession had been given out to the papers on the following day. Again, a Phi Beta Kappa student was arrested on the charge of drunkenness, for objecting to being kicked in the posterior by an officer, who claimed that he had not moved along fast enough, when told...
...Yeah, I saw them, two of them, riding fast, and suddenly a tree Burp! (Pardon me, it's this stuff) loomed up from nowhere, smashed the car, and drew life's blood. Luckily they died outright, and they did not feel the blood trickle. The thought of the speeding, the sudden, final movements, and the dying, the passing . . . A cold slab, flesh cold, blood dried, eyes wide and staring dead. Have you ever...
...last week defending plane scouring the skies caught sight of a small squadron of the attackers, one battleship and a few fast cruisers, which had steamed ahead of the rest of the fleet. They were heading not for strategic Oahu but for the island of Hawaii, largest of the group which lies some 200 miles southeast of Honolulu. Hilo, second largest city of th Islands, situated on Hawaii, received warning an hour in advance. Its airport was evacuated. Within a few minutes bombers from the fleet circled overhead dropping hypothetical explosives. In short time the squadron standing off-shore...
...real issue and a wage increase could be avoided if recognition were granted. In this he was wrong. But confused by Big Steel's sudden refusal to play with them, the independents did nothing about their own scheme. In the time thus gained Mr. Taylor had to work fast, for a wage boost originating outside would have undone his secret diplomacy. Within a week the independents, who "would rather be damned than give in to the Left," were receiving reports from their spies that Steelman Fairless and Labor-man Murray were about to sit down to bargain. The independents...