Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afternoon last week, Dwight Eisenhower snapped erect in his seat at the NATO conference table, put on his glasses, and. in firm, clear tones, began to read: "We are in a fast-running current of the great stream of history. Heroic efforts will be needed to steer the world toward true peace. This is a high endeavor. But it is one which the free nations of the world can accomplish." When he had finished, NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan turned to him with quick, wide smiles of congratulation...
Truth was that it was too early for congratulations. The U.S. delegation had gone to Paris with some misconceptions about the temper of the rest of the NATO allies. In Washington shortly before leaving, Secretary of State Dulles had made it plain that he was counting on hard and fast acceptance of the U.S. plan to establish missile bases in Europe. Said he: "I don't favor these so-called agreements in principle." He had apparently given little weight to the talk of new East-West negotiations that had swept Europe in the wake of Russian Premier Bulganin...
Partially because of such conditions, more than three out of four students enrolled in law, science, or letters abandon their studies after only one year. Says Chemistry Professor Prevost: "Unless our authorities act fast, the whole system of higher education will disintegrate...
...with the Rifais or "howling" dervishes, who inflicted wounds upon themselves and were sometimes ritually trampled under horses' hoofs. In contarst, the Mevlevi dervishes were no holy-rolling orgiasts. With serenity and calm, dressed in tall, conical hats and flowing black robes, they spun round and round, some fast, some slow, rapt in concentration, some of them murmuring "Allah, Allah" over and over again, whirling themselves into ecstasy. The pattern of their dance was said to represent outwardly the movements of the planets and inwardly the movement of the soul...
...they regarded it as a "recession as planned." As consumer prices had gone up month after month for the biggest rise (2.5%) in five years, the Federal Reserve Board, under tough-minded Chairman William McChesney Martin, worked with grim determination to keep the economy from growing too big, too fast. Martin stumped the nation preaching "inflation, not deflation, is the real danger." To check all phases of the buying jag-a rise in industrial expansion, piling up of business inventories and increases in consumer purchasing-the Fed squeezed tight on the nation's credit supply. As the demand...