Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everyone's relief, young Mark Glidden turned out to be a normal, robust (7 lbs. 5 oz.) baby. Since he is only the second on record born to a mother taking "immunosuppressive" drugs, doctors are carefully refraining from drawing any fast conclusions. Still, Dr. Kaufman is impressed-not only by Mark's health but by the fact that Bonnie's kidney seemed to perform better than ever while she was pregnant. It is widely assumed that a pregnant woman somehow suppresses some of her rejection mechanism so that she can carry the partially foreign fetus...
...taught himself Morse code and snared a job pounding a telegraph key for the American Marconi Co. He first tasted fame on a night the world would remember-April 14, 1912. Sarnoff picked up a message from the British steamship Titanic. "Hit an iceberg," it read. "Sinking fast." For 72 hours, he stayed at the key, guiding rescue ships and relaying names of survivors. Thereafter, his rise at Marconi was swift. In 1919 RCA absorbed the company. Two years later, RCA Board Chairman Owen D. Young, somewhat awed by Sarnoff's knowledge of wireless and visions of the future...
...military sophistication how French colonels, beaten in Indo-China, applied terrorist tactics to the struggle for Algeria. From this epic theme, Director Mark Robson has derived one of those big bad action pictures in which the explosions look frighteningly real but unfortunately don't kill off the actors fast enough...
...Here," of course, was an important qualification. Massachusetts politics are still at a stage that would have alarmed turn-of-the-century muck-rakers. Any politician worth his shirt in this state gets into either house of Congress as fast as he can and leaves local business to a poor set of political hacks. And unenlightened government breeds as well as preys on an unenlightened electorate...
...Ryan and Tom McLoone of the Crimson have the job of breaking up the Brown secondary's scoring power. McLoone, a sophomore, placed sixth against Penn and Columbia in surprisingly fast time. That was the first time McLoone finished in the scoring five, and McCurdy is counting on him heavily today...