Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barred from the consulate, the press had a troubled half hour making sure that it was really the schoolmarm who had jumped. The conservative Sun, no slouch at handling a fast-breaking story, won the race to tell the news. It hit the street with an eight-column headline at 5:06 without at first identifying the woman...
...inflation with the new housing law which Congress passed last week. Its main provision is something called "yield insurance," by which the Government will back private investment in emergency housing up to 90% of capital outlay, and insure a 2¾% profit. With houses now going up about as fast as the supply of materials will allow, the likely result would be an imperceptible rise in new housing, and an appreciable rise in already inflated building costs...
...turnpike issue got off fast. Insurance companies and other institutional investors signed up for nearly $60 million the first day; after 24 hours, there was only about $15 million still to be sold. The reasons were plain. On tolls ranging from $1 and $1.50 for motorcycles and cars to $10 for heavy trailer trucks, the eight-year-old highway has shown a handsome profit every year. All during wartime gas rationing, the commission managed to keep the annual net above the million mark by promoting the turnpike's time-saving advantage (more than three hours on the Pittsburgh-Philadelphia...
...been natives trained by Seventh-Day Adventist missionaries and hired at $20 to $40 a year. British inspectors who had seen them at work found that few of them had ever read a book outside school, knew little about teaching a course, could barely spell themselves. The islanders were fast forgetting their English, and were slipping into a droning dialect all their...
...witnesses disagreed on how fast the car was going, and how much attention the driver was paying to the road (he had been shown waving to friends). Donaldson's lawyer got a girl witness so mixed up during cross-examination that she began sobbing "I don't know" to questions she had already answered with assurance. Driver Donaldson's mind went completely blank when he finally reached the witness stand, and he wasn't playacting. Said the professor: "A perfect example of retrograde amnesia...