Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high drama of Suez and Hungary, which dominated the Eleventh General Assembly of the United Nations, delegates to the Twelfth General Assembly gathered in Manhattan last week, willing to be more prosaic. "Frankly," said one Western diplomat, "we hope this is going to be a dull, dreary and fast session...
Working from a mound that is only 46 ft. from the plate, softball pitchers boast much the same repertory as their big-league counterparts. Even though they are limited to an underhand delivery, their curves and fastballs blaze in so fast that the best batters have no time to swing from their heels. And there is always the change-up to help give the pitcher the upper hand. Most important of all, the underhanded softball delivery permits a wicked pitch that no hardball batter ever has to face: the rise ball. Sailing up from a few inches off the dirt...
Opposite Boulris at right half will probably be 170-pound scatback Don Gerety. Early season scrimmages indicated that Bill Crowley, a fast 200-pounder just returned from a tour of duty with the Army, would play in this position, but Crowley has been out of action with a cold for several days, and Yovicsin has put Gerety in the top position...
...fast turnover and apparent scarcity of tutors is reputedly due, first of all, to the Committee's lack of funds which prohibits the acquisition of the best men in a field. It is rare to find a Comparative Literature professor tutoring in History and Lit., although much of the field deals with this subject...
When Britain first advertised the Bristol Britannia for delivery in early 1957, U.S. airmen thought they might have something to worry about. Until Boeing and Douglas pure jetliners were ready to fly in 1959, British Overseas Airways Corp.'s big (93 passengers), fast (385 m.p.h.) turboprop plane seemed a likely cream-skimmer in the lush transatlantic trade. But once again Britain's state-dominated aircraft industry managed to pluck defeat from victory. Nine months late, Bristol last week finally rolled out the first of 18 Britannia 312s for BOAC amid a chorus of complaints about the plane...