Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Need Latitude. Dean Acheson slipped off his spectacles, was ready for questions. They came fast from all sides. Would an attack on a Berlin airlift plane flying over the Soviet zone be considered an armed attack under the treaty? Acheson replied calmly that he thought that would be an attack on the occupation forces. "But if it occurs over the Soviet zone?" the reporter pressed. Acheson said it made no difference...
Durable Species. The coalition was not a development of the civil-rights fight. It was an old alliance which began developing during Franklin Roosevelt's second term. It fought a rearguard action against the New Deal. It would not be a hard & fast combination; there would be regroupings within it and shifts back to the Administration side...
Eight years ago, Mrs. Phillips sent a radio to be repaired. The bill came to $8.90. Mrs. Phillips refused to pay-she thought it was going to cost only $1. She sent her 20-year-old son to get the radio back. But John, an easy mark for a fast sales talk, came home with a new radio, for which he had agreed to pay in $1.25 weekly installments. The radio-shop owner, chubby A. M. Pearson, got Mrs. Phillips to sign the contract...
...people inside his picture frames looked desperate on the whole, not ecstatic, but people on the outside looking in were generally pleased as Punch. Middleton's exhibition in a Dublin gallery last week sold fast, and moved critics to unaccustomed cheers. Ireland's No. 1 painter, crusty old Jack B. Yeats (brother of the late great Poet William Butler), spent a morning at the show, at last gave his judgment: "It takes 40 years to learn to handle paint like that." Middleton was just...
...fast becoming an old folks' world. In the U.S., by 1980 about 40% of the population will be more than 45 years old. Medical science has done so well at prolonging man's life that it has a thriving specialty devoted to making old age more pleasant, or at least more tolerable...