Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 is part of this new genre. Eight leftovers from the '60s, each holding fast to a different--but always unorthodox--ideology, come into contact through an organic farm on the outskirts of Geneva, where for a little while they seem to have found a viable alternative to the bourgeois life they disdain. Each character is as individual as the ideology he or she has adopted, ranging from Max, a former revolutionary whose total cynicism masks his despair, to Marcel, an artist who finds animals more interesting than people...
They also learned a lot about tongue-twisters. Ready? Say National Invitational Intercollegiate five times fast. National Invitational Intercollegiate, National Invitational Intercollegiate, National Invitational Intercollegiate...
Harvard kept hitting and got the lead down to four with about five minutes to play. Then forward Nate Davis tried to slam-dunk the ball on a fast break, only to have Rogers get in his way in an attempt to draw a charging foul. Davis hit the dunk, and Rogers was charged with a flagrant foul. Both free throws were good, and The Crimson was never close after that...
...skeptical Europe that he is firmly committed to NATO, but he must also work to strengthen the alliance against the continuing and ominous buildup of Soviet bloc forces. Far more important, he has to face a Western Europe racked by economic problems and political unrest, with the left rising fast...
...though," said Bukovsky. One way was through a few sympathetic guards who passed on the cheering news of the protest campaign being carried on for Bukovsky in the West. The prison grapevine quickly carried the news of Bukovsky's dramatic month-long hunger strike. Before and after his fast, Bukovsky, like other prisoners, received only minimal fare. Lunch consisted of thin gruel, while dinner was a watery, acid soup. Inmates also received ¾ oz. of sugar and 2 oz. of salted fish per day. "It's rotten fish," Bukovsky recalled. "I don't know what sea they...