Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...holding an empty glass when I began to read Fangs A Lot [April 8]. I had so much pun galloping through your pheasantries that my crocodile tears fell so fast I thought I needed an eye-viper. It gladdened my hart to see the tears had fallen into the glass. Instantly I addered a mastiff slug of raw animal spirits, with ice-"crocs on the rocks"-thrush snaking my thirst in a swallow. Delicious. Pity I had no horse d'oeuvre. Such a stag party may never be held again. On the otter hand, I wonder wether the savoir...
...would not only precipitate civil war between Vietnamese units but would almost surely kill or injure some of the 30,000 Americans stationed there. Since there were no ranking Vietnamese officers around, Lieut. General Lewis Walt, commander of the 3rd Marine Amphibious Force at the base, decided to move fast. He ordered a detail of 60 marines to cut Yeu's still advancing column in half by stalling a big truck on a bridge behind Yeu's forward command post, then claiming that the truck had broken down. When the Vietnamese troops caught on to the ruse, their...
...soon boost the state's power capacity from 10,000 kw. to 235,000 kw. A group of ambitious jute traders in hustling Santarém has set up a factory that makes sacks from raw jute; it now employs 800 people. Hotels are going up almost as fast. This month a new 16 story hotel opens in Belém, the first major hotel in decades. Manaus also recently opened one-eight stories high and completely air-conditioned...
...Also Little. Under state law, any Kansas high school graduate has the right to enroll at the university, but incompetents are weeded out fast in the first semester. Over the past eight years, Kansas has harvested six Rhodes scholarships, almost as many as Princeton or Yale, and 106 Woodrow Wilson scholarships for postgraduate study in the past six years. An honors program exempts the top 150 students from class-load limits, lets some students carry as many as 28 hours per semester and whiz through college in little over two years...
...Chrysler Corp. called back 17,500 of its 1966 Dodge Polaras and Monacos to fix a throttle linkage that can stretch during sharp braking, causing the engine to idle too fast. Chrysler said the fault had caused no accidents that it knew of but it was "concerned...