Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...figures), the Benson program will admittedly lead to a gradual downstep of prices each year. Benson believes that dropping prices will ultimately cut down the amount of wheat raised; U.S. farmers, past masters of food production, bet that they can keep their incomes from falling too fast by increasing their crop yields. Congress rejected Benson's wheat proposal last session, but this time Benson counts on a powerful new weapon: Ike's promise to go on TV next year and urge public backing for Benson's wheat program...
...steady progression of Russian experiments-from Sputnik to hitting the moon to photographing the moon's far side, to extensive space tests with animals-indicates a Soviet determination to get man into space, and get him there as fast as possible. It also indicates that the moon is the Russians' first space objective...
...County Empire. Attorney General (later Governor) James Allred spotted Freshman Legislator Anderson as a promising young man, lifted him out of the legislature to serve as assistant attorney general. Moving along fast, Anderson became state tax commissioner at 24, head of the state unemployment commission at 26. In 1937 the W. T. Waggoner Estate, a 500,000-acre cattle, wheat and oil empire sprawling over six Texas counties, hired him away as general counsel. When the estate's general manager died in 1941, old Guy Waggoner called the clan together and said, "Let's let this...
...didn't mind the cold air outside at all. And he rode his motor scooter much too fast down Holyoke Street...
...danger of this middle culture," he said, "is that it may permanently debase our standards, as the revised Standard Bible has replaced the King James Version." MacDonald attacked J.B. for its "mid cult approach," which mixes dramaturgy, the Bible, and melodrama to produce a play that "works twice as fast as real poetry...