Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From ECA's very beginning this proposition had been recognized-in theory. But in its first year, ECA, faced with an emergency, tended to the opposite direction. ECA sometimes stimulated fast production in a way that worked against future European economic unity and overall efficiency. Example: before the war, The Netherlands made heavy purchases from Belgium's big railway equipment industry. Today, the Belgians do not want to trade with The Netherlands because the Dutch can pay them only guilders, not now convertible to dollars. Like everyone else in Europe, the Belgians want dollars...
Potatoes & Toad. Nonetheless, the two sisters have always been fast friends. Margaret's bubbling imagination and great self-assurance have been a buoy for Elizabeth's shy conscientiousness; dutiful Elizabeth has been a steady rock for mercurial Margaret. When Elizabeth at eleven became a Girl Guide, she insisted that Margaret be enlisted too. The younger sister was signed up as a Brownie, Leprechaun division...
...that students should "major in the subjects easiest for you, and minor in the hardest," that they should be graded for originality and self-reliance as well as for book knowledge. They were individuals, he thought, with differing aims; they should to a large extent decide for themselves how fast they ought...
Like many another paintmaker, Cleveland's Glidden Co. was running into trouble. Its sales for six months were 20% below the same period a year ago; even its new, fast-drying "Spred-Satin" paint was selling slowly. But Glidden's tall, lean President Dwight P. Joyce was not one to take it lying down. Tired of "too much talk about business conditions and not enough action," he rounded up 32 of his top executives and dispatched them one Saturday morning to 28 Cleveland retail stores to peddle paint...
Chaste Miracle. After that, Stanley Banks must have withered fast, because his family scarcely noticed him at all for the next few months. He was always somewhere around, though-in his wife's way, under the florist's feet, beneath the caterer's contempt-with his hand in his wallet and his heart in his mouth...