Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million 20th Century-Fox musical extravaganza, starring Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Tony Newley, and a cast of 1,147 other humans and 1,500 beasts. To play the featured role of Gub-Gub the pig, he will need 40 trained piglets (because they grow out of the part so fast). The fabled two-headed pushmi-pullyu will be re-created by two llamas, artfully superimposed on film back to back. Under the circumstances, what could be more natural than for Jacobs to cast Castle Combe as the good doctor's 19th century home town, Puddleby-on-the-Marsh...
...Brookhaven experiment involved a fast-decaying subatomic particle known as an eta meson, which breaks down into three lighter particles known as pions-one with no electrical charge. According to the theory of symmetry, the positive and negative pions should not have shown any significant difference in speed. But 53% of the time, the positive pion zipped across the bubble chamber with more energy than its negative antiparticle...
...easy way of life that they have had to invent a new language to describe it. GROUPERS are not fish, but young people who have pooled their assets to rent a house together for the season. There are BOY HOUSES and GIRL HOUSES but the MIXED HOUSE is fast becoming the most popular arrangement. Seasoned groupers insist on VISITING PRIVILEGES before going in on a house; that means they can bring along their SLEEPIES, who are nonresident guests of the opposite...
...club is turned up full blast a few minutes before showtime. The hapless audience, unaware of what hit it, naturally attributes the sudden lift in spirits to the personality of the performer. And when it comes time for the singer's exit, the orchestra breaks into a fast "bright four" tempo that compels the listeners, whether they want to or not, to applaud briskly in rhythm with the music...
Raising interest rates is the bankers' way of fighting inflation by rationing funds, the supply of which has been increasing rapidly this year-but not nearly so fast as the demand for money in the exuberant economy. Accordingly, the increase surprised neither bankers, brokers nor Washington. The prime-rate hike caused speculation that the Federal Reserve Board would any day now increase its 4½% discount rate-the amount it charges member banks for borrowing funds. Yet if the board acts, it seems likely to disrupt further the delicate competitive balance between the nation's financial institutions...