Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blacks to govern themselves than with the conditions under which they have been forced to govern. The nations that they took over were artificial, their boundaries carved out arbitrarily in the days when the European powers were grabbing colonies as fast as they could, paying no attention to the hundreds of tribal lines that make up the true political map of Africa...
...bare 13 months old and growing fast, ESSA has united the Weather Bureau, Coast & Geodetic Survey and the Bureau of Standards' Central Radio Propagation Laboratory, creating a 10,000-man agency under the Department of Commerce. As envisioned by President Johnson, it is to "provide a single national focus for our efforts to describe, understand and predict the state of the oceans, the state of the lower and upper atmosphere, and the size and shape of the earth...
...hitters as a high school ace back home in Williamston, N.C. In 1958, the Giants shelled out $60,000 just to get him on the roster, but for a while it seemed a forlorn investment. His fastball was wild, and when he tried to develop a slider (or fast curve) it was too slow. It took eight years and several elevator rides to the minors before Perry learned to improve his control, to keep the ball low and to give himself another effective pitch. This spring, he finally got the hang of a fast slider that starts out like...
...fierce loyalty to his buddies in time of trouble. "I know if I get in a jam," said a fellow pilot recently, "I'm going to get help. I can depend on Kasler." Last week loyalty brought disaster to Jim Kasler, the "one-man Air Force" who was fast becoming the most famous pilot over-North Viet Nam (TIME...
...came up with a dandy. Just as the House policemen were crying "Lock the doors!" in preparation for the vote, a news dispatch was passed down the Conservatives' Front Bench. What they read caught the Tories-and the nation-by surprise. Said one admirer of Wilson's fast footwork: "The press can only carry one banner headline...