Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kind of a reverse psychology, but if you try too hard for the dangling carrot in front of you, all you'll do is spend your energy too fast and when it comes time to get the carrot, you're not in the position to enjoy it or ever make the effort..." he sighed, dripping sweat on the turf, and looking around anxiously...
...Polar Bears took advantage of a fast break, extra-man situation late in the half to garner their lone score...
...occasion House Calls gets a fast comic beat going, only to have its plot bring the laughs to an abrupt halt. The screenwriters have not found a way to integrate their hero's hospital shenanigans with the love story, and they build their narrative around the kind of forced farcical coincidences that went out of style with I Love Lucy. Howard Zieff, the talented director of Slither and Hearts of the West, works diligently to paper over the rough spots; he is an enviably good craftsman. Yet even he cannot rescue House Calls once it starts to become heartwarming...
Restrain Social Security Benefits. They are scheduled to rise fast in the years ahead. By trimming the benefits, the nation can also pare the scheduled increases in Social Security payroll taxes...
...lessons were not lost. Together, the Guggenheim sons-Isaac, Daniel, Murry, Solomon, Benjamin, Simon and William-made much of the world theirs. Building on the medium-size fortune left them by Meyer, a Swiss Jew who had immigrated to the U.S. in 1848, the seven sons stood fast to create the greatest mining empire of their time. With boldness and flair, they laid a railroad across moving glaciers to gouge out a mountain of copper in Alaska. They built a modern port and a 55-mile-long aqueduct to seize another copper mountain in the Chilean Andes. They raised...