Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fashioned religion, with accents on fervent prayer and self-denial: "I know they are dissatisfied, because I keep them dissatisfied!" In the meantime, he has delusions of grandeur and "a weakness for women." To his people, he remains a holy man, but to the audience, Jero is a fast-talking, joke-cracking observer of the endless silliness that is life...
...effective doctor must appear confident and self-assured, so a man charged with keeping a community of physicians and medical educators functioning smoothly must be a doctor's doctor; he must show very little hesitation or uncertainty. Tosteson does not speak fast; he takes time to think out what he is saying. Like the office of Dean Rosovsky in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Tosteson's office is spacious, and the focus of the room is on the comfortable furniture designed for conversation rather than paper work. Tosteson's desk looks almost insignificant against a back wall...
Sometime after the first collection came out Elton's music lost much of its power, and was left with only the loudness and outrageousness, and his name. He had pumped out too many records too fast. There is a limit to how much original music one man can produce; after a while he starts covering the same ground over and over. He has nothing more to say. Elton's songs started sounding tired. They stayed on top of the charts only because they came from Elton John...
...battle -Meyer launched a personal lobbying campaign. Contending that he was acting as a private citizen, he urged members of Congress and White House aides to exempt the Imperial Valley from the big sell-off Last week President Carter ordered Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland to rein in his deputy fast...
...Davis would be seen as a ruling against affirmative action, and that it could mark the first victory in a campaign to turn back the tide of affirmative action and the progress of civil rights programs and legislation by those who now think minorities have gained too much, too fast in the past decade...