Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rage. In warmer seas and clearer waters there might be silvery showers offish outside the conning tower dome. But here there is nothing but specks of algae the color of cornmeal that whirl out of the green water toward the dome like flakes spinning against the windshield of a fast-moving car on a snowy night. There is no sensation of time passing until Jacobson's voice on the radio summons the S 250 to the surface...
...protesting, Kennedy has been acting lately like a man lining up friends and gathering power. When Jimmy Carter refused an invitation to speak to a national conference of mayors in Atlanta, Kennedy swiftly accepted; he moved just as fast last week when Carter was unable to address a meeting of the American Bar Association in New York City. Suddenly Kennedy seemed to be everywhere. He split publicly with the President over what he considered broken campaign promises on national health insurance. At the same time, he was on television answering a lot of questions about the magazine articles in which...
...arrival in Alexandria, Vance had waited six hours for the sun to set and for Sadat to break his daylong fast. At 8:50 p.m., the Egyptian greeted his guest and escorted him across the well-clipped lawn of the presidential summer home toward two wicker chairs. By that hour the Mediterranean seashore had disappeared into the night, but the palatial rest-house grounds were lighted by high-intensity arc lights...
Paul became a study in anguish-wanting reform but fearing the consequences of too much too fast, trying to please progressives while placating conservatives. He said yes to more changes than any Pope since the 16th century Council of Trent: a thoroughgoing revision of liturgy, a streamlining of the Curia, an unprecedented rapprochement with other faiths. But his no could be emphatic and crucial: no to any genuine sharing of power with his fellow bishops, no to married priests, no to the ordination of women, and no-a still-reverberating no-to artificial birth control. The late Jesuit Theologian John...
...Bike Nuts, who pedal $1,000 coinage machines, complete a 70-mile leg in five hours or less and, as one wag noted, "go so fast that no one ever sees them, and they see nothing of the scenery...