Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indiana's Republicans, accustomed to fast moves by their bosses, could hardly believe that Bill Jenner would put his hard-driving ambition into reverse. But he came back to the state, politicked at the fish frys, backslapped the hill boys, and swore that the limit of his ambition was to be governor, not senator...
...firing stopped. Both Jews and Arabs quickly charged truce violations as one side or the other tried to stake out claims in the no-man's-lands between front lines. Each side would be entitled to stand fast on what it held for the month of peace-if it lasted that long. The most important pre-truce drive was an unsuccessful Israeli effort to reopen the road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Anticipating failure, the Jews had hacked a primitive trail through the hills south of the main road. There mule trains, jeeps, and slogging men kept a trickle...
...television studio and tried on some faces. He tried eyebrow pencils, lipsticks and Pancake Make-up (neither Max Factor 23 nor Max Factor 29 was quite right, but Max Factor 28, a nice healthy brown, looked wonderful on the handsome governor). Thinking it all over, he settled for a fast barbershop...
...York Stock Exchange, the Dow-Jones industrial averages last week edged up to a high of 191.32, best since Aug. 26, 1946. Then they worried off a shade or two. After such a fast climb as they made in May (180.28 to 191.06), a spell of backing & filling was to be expected. Many Dow theorists even expected a substantial "correction...
...biggest surprise in the book is the durable quality of the writing of John Galsworthy. Placed alongside the other prizewinners, the story of Swithin Forsyte, from Caravan (1925), is fast, matter-of-fact and honestly funny...