Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brazil's cities are as varied as its people. The Brazilians of Rio-better known as Cariocas-are a lively, loving lot who live for the beach, the fast and easy deal, the artful fix (jeito) and fun and sloppy sports clothes. Nothing seems to bother the Cariocas. Because of power shortages, the lights in various parts of Rio are turned off at various times each evening. Instead of worrying about it, the carioca has invented a game called carioca roulette, in which he climbs into an elevator around shut-off time and takes his chances on making...
...fast as the new core units were rested in place, plumbers and electricians began connecting them up to the existing water mains and electrical inlets. Meanwhile, carpenters installed new living-room and bedroom wall panels and ceilings, adjustable aluminum window frames and plastic-coated flooring. As a final touch, pest-control men went through the building to exterminate any left-over rodents and roaches, while roofers closed up the hole through which the core units had been lowered. Seven minutes before the 48-hour target deadline was reached, the whistle blew and the job was done...
...glossy, city-centered magazines that are now catching on across the U.S. (TIME, Dec. 24, 1965). Digging just as hard as Karafin, Philadelphia Writers Gaeton Fonzi and Greg Walter began by investigating a racket involving fly-by-night companies that bought retail items on credit, unloaded them fast at discount prices, and then went into bankruptcy. The trail led to the doorstep of a 600-lb. operator named Sylvan Scolnick. Arrested, prosecuted and convicted, Scolnick started singing. Karafin, said Scolnick, was a good friend, so good, in fact, that he vouched for Scolnick's moral character and signed...
...type of operation that obviously needed investigation in the late 1950s was the home-repair racket. Fast-buck operators would talk a homeowner into making improvements such as installing a new heating system or aluminum siding. The owner signed a credit agreement. The work, usually cheap and shoddy, got done and the fast-buck men sold the credit agreement at a discount to a broker, commercial finance firm or a bank. If too many angry and defrauded homeowners threatened, the company simply folded. It was a business particularly vulnerable to bad publicity, and Karafin and Scolnick said...
...Harvard victory was scored in the Finn Invitational, held twice each year on the Charles to determine single handed superiority in fast, planing-type Boats. The Crimson, perennially strong in this event, had clinched the victory in the ten-team field when four of the five races had been completed...