Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson, often searching out a secluded cove where he and his party can have privacy from peering eyes. Clamping down his yellow golfer's cap, clenching the wheel like a vise, Johnson really opens up the throttle, leaving broad wakes and gaping mouths behind him. He goes so fast, in fact, that the Secret Service has had to buy two new speedboats to keep up with him when he is at full throttle (four boats in all accompany him). "Here comes Linton" (hill-country pronunciation of the President's name), chuckle the fishermen as the armada approaches...
...highly classified new Army gun, the SPIW (for Special Purpose Individual Weapon), which is being developed as a replacement for both the current M-14 rifle and the M-79 grenade launcher. An under/over rifle, the SPIW fires fast bursts of small lethal, high-velocity darts called fléchettes from its top barrel and 40-mm. antipersonnel grenades from its bottom barrel. The Army has already spent $15 million on the gun, will pick a final version next year...
Convinced as a young man that there was a future in variety stores whose prices were midway between those of the five and tens and the more expensive department stores, Yankee Grant opened his first 25? store in Lynn, Mass., in 1906, opened others so fast as the idea caught on that at 48 he made a major decision. Insisting that the growing chain needed an "organizer" at its head rather than a merchandiser like himself, Grant kicked himself upstairs to chairman, spent less and less time with the company, occupied himself with painting, charities, philosophical studies and world travel...
...automatically topped (with plastic and metal, not cork), stamped with labels, dropped twelve at a time into cases and conveyed to a mechanical loading dock. There a monitor at a control board punches out orders that fill up waiting trucks at the rate of a truck a minute-fast enough so that some drivers do not bother to get out of their cabs. After the style of U.S. aircraft carriers, Henrion keeps track of his men by dressing foremen in beige overalls, wine handlers in red, mechanics in brown, bottling-machine attendants in blue, and forklift truckers in yellow...
...constant use. "Unseemly behavior," "ulterior motive," "the bond of affection," "spread like wildfire," "fraught with danger," "outraged dignity," "food for thought," "kicking over the traces," "nefarious scheme," "accepted with alacrity," "wild disorders," "the handwriting on the wall," "a figment of imagination," "travel-stained "garments," "the unvarnished truth," "failing fast," "a kind and devoted husband," "their fury knew no bounds," "by hook or crook"-they are all here, sometimes twice and sometimes in flocks: "The immediate result of this dramatic departure was one of widespread enthusiasm and some of the murmurings against Oliveres were stilled when his tardily acknowledged son organized...