Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...successful has Carter's human rights policy been? If its aim is to burnish the U.S. image abroad, the policy has been a great triumph in many regions. From Latin America, TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand reports that among the people?but not the officials?Carter is fast becoming as admired as the much venerated John Kennedy. Notes a leading opposition politician in Chile: "The U.S. is now in the forefront of the fight for freedom and has once again assumed moral and spiritual leadership...
Sloane is another naif who leaves her West Virginia home for Washington, D.C., and some fast lessons about drinking, men and politics...
...written anything that hasn't happened -God knows that in San Francisco you don't have to make it up." San Francisco suburbanites had their own serial in the Pacific Sun until its author, Cyra McFadden, got a book contract and published The Serial (Knopf; $4.95), a fast-selling, funny, 52-chapter account of Living Together Relationships and Creative Divorce Groups in Marin County...
...most social theorists shy away from: Is it possible that social classes reflect genetic differences? Do the upper classes gradually accumulate a separate and superior gene pool? After stating that the idea has "plausibility," Wilson goes on to say there is "little evidence" of its truth: culture moves too fast, and even the 2,000-year-old castes of India are not genetically different in any measurable way. Still, Wilson believes there is a "loose correlation of some of the genetically determined traits with success." Such beliefs worry many readers, so Wilson often devotes himself to reassuring audiences that sociobiology...
There were old railroad money and new fast-food money, Saudi sheiks and Japanese transistor magnates, Texas oilmen and British noblemen, not to mention the usual clutch of Whitneys and Vanderbilts. Around the barns of the great breeding farms-Spendthrift, Claiborne and the like-and under the canopies covering the caviar at auction-weekend parties, the talk was peppered with the names of sires: What A Pleasure, Round Table, Sir Ivor, Northern Dancer. A casual comment about one filly brought the quick question: "How was she bred, ma'am?" The equally quick answer: "By Secretariat out of Crimson Saint...