Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outside, darkness had fallen fast. Rosalynn Carter, in slacks and a white ribbed sweater, stood over the sink in the nearby kitchen, peeling some squash for dinner. Several times she stepped back inside the den just to hear the names. Amy Carter burst into her father's study at one point, and Carter, with great delight, showed her his new white speaker telephone that plugged directly into the White House switchboard. She immediately called a neighborhood friend on the phone, and Carter and Jordan watched with amusement as she pretended she needed a school assignment...
Liberal Washington attorney . . . A leading contender for HUD or Commerce . . . Age 45 . . . Born in Brooklyn . . . Was an editor of the Harvard Law Review . . . Spent early 1960s rising fast in the Defense Department; became Army's general counsel, then Secretary Robert McNamara's top troubleshooter . . . As Lyndon Johnson's domestic aide between 1965 and 1969, developed Great Society programs in civil rights, education and antipoverty; also had a hand in economic policymaking . . . Was counsel to the Democratic National Committee from 1970 to 1972, winning court battles to provide equal broadcast time for Democratic leaders...
Jacques Chirac is in a hurry. He always has been. Of all the mannerisms that reveal him, perhaps none is more telling to a Frenchman's taste than the way he eats: furiously and fast, raising only the question of how much he savors as he dines...
After black Med School students learned in September that minority applicants were down 60 per cent from last year's level at that time, some approached Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, associate dean of the Med School for student affairs, with a plan to do some fast recruiting...
...difference in rates reflects Harvard's policy of encouraging students not to rush through their graduate studies, and Princeton's desire to move students in and out as fast as possible...