Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Governor Hodges, 59, a Virginia sharecropper's son who became a vice president of Marshall Field & Co. before turning to politics, moved hard and fast to prevent trouble. Speaking over a statewide network of radio and television stations last week, Hodges expressed his personal feelings: "I think the U.S. Supreme Court made a tragic mistake." But, he said, "we are forced to recognize that that court has the final word. [We] do not like lawlessness." Luther Hodges meant to use the power of the state to uphold, not upset, the law of the land...
...Appraisal. Within the hour, word began to percolate around Washington that the U.S. was hardening fast upon a new appraisal of the Syrian situation: some sort of a forceful confrontation of world Communism in the Middle East would soon be necessary to stop Syria from slipping into satellite status and from subverting neighboring Jordan and Lebanon...
...poor New Yorkers were trying to buy Sal ("The Barber") Maglie from the outpaced Dodgers. This week the rumors became fact. In New York, at least, even anti-Yanks had reason to be thankful. Their Giants were taking it on the lam; their Dodgers were talking flight and fading fast. The Yanks were not only sticking around, but had bolstered their promise of a World Series, divided with Milwaukee's high-flying Braves...
...heavy fur hats-you keep these on at cocktail parties and you get hotheaded fast...
...hooting tugboat nosed up to an odd-looking 4,200-ton contraption in West Germany's Audorf shipyards (on the Kiel Canal) last week, made towlines fast and headed to sea, outward bound for the Persian Gulf, 6,800 miles away. No ordinary barge, the contraption bristled with a 140-ft. derrick, a crane, a heliport, had air-conditioned quarters for 50 men. Built at a cost of $3,500,000, it was the most advanced mobile oil-drilling platform ever built, and a device that its owners, British Petroleum Co. and Compagnie Franchise de Petroles, hope will open...