Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against its long list of futile endeavors, the United Nations could point to a few modest successes. One was the truce agreement between the Dutch and the Indonesian Republic. Last week that small star in U.N.'s crown was fading fast...
Stalemate. The hitch did not result from lack of initiative on U.N.'s part. Indeed, the Dutch claimed that U.N.'s Good Offices Committee in Indonesia (made up of an American, an Australian and a Belgian) was pushing too hard and too fast. Under the truce agreement reached last January, the Dutch and the Republicans were supposed to work out plans for a federal United States of Indonesia, to take over sovereign powers...
...Bearings & Bottle Bombs. It was the first action for the new force. Created since November's rioting, it was divided into eight super-precincts, which covered all France, and equipped with rapid transport and radio jeeps. It had special military powers and was especially designed to provide a fast, hard-hitting counter to any pattern of scattered, simultaneous outbreaks that the Communists, or anyone else, might devise. At Bergougnan the Compagnie de Sécurité received a baptism of sulphuric acid, but it won a swift, decisive victory...
...Avery's power was not clipped, Avery had suspected that it was a bluff to scare him off his high horse. Now he learned better. Vice Presidents Oswald Higgins, Laurence Odell, Charles Odorizzi and Earl Ward promptly resigned. By week's end, Avery was reportedly talking fast to persuade the other three vice presidents to stay...
...Despite talk of shortages, U.S. gasoline supplies for this summer "look pretty good," the Interior Department reported. Unless the public drives "recklessly far and recklessly fast," there will be only brief spot shortages due to inadequate transportation and distribution...