Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poorly prepared for the kind of short, ferocious rocket, tank and artillery blitz that Moscow could launch. Indeed, the Soviets would launch no other kind, for their 75%-to-25% ratio of combat troops to support troops (the U.S. puts 50% in logistics and support) is predicated on a fast-moving front. In a discomfiting break from tradition, Moscow is now training its air force to support advancing ground units. The SU-19 Fencer, recently deployed in East Germany, is the first Soviet fighterbomber designed specifically to engage ground targets. Thus, before Washington even has time to decide whether...
...tennis, the basic game, there is a dotted net, a white ball and oblong bars representing racquets on the screen. By twiddling their control knobs, players can drive, volley and angle shots without sweat or risk to tendon. Fast reflexes are demanded, however. As the game progresses, some units automatically speed up the ball; others allow the players to set the pace as well as select the length of game (from 2 to 20 minutes). The screen keeps score. Pong and other games emit an exultant plonk! or ping! when the player smites the ball (losers supply their own Nastase...
...room is a sea of drunk and rowdy humanity. Music blares from the stereo as people jockey for position around a fast-emptying keg of beer. No, it is not a clearance sale at the corner bar: this is the scene on many weekends at Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE), Harvard's only fraternity...
...driving under the influence" record with the friendly men-in-blue rivaled only by vice-presidential hopeful Tom Eagleton. But--and this will be the biggest moolah to come down the old ivory tube since our last ish--he's taken the fatal step and pulled a fast one, so look out, world...
THERE WAS AN ABRUPT TRANSITION in the American musical theater between 1942 and 1943, and the transition was between Hart and Hammerstein. Lorenz Hart's death represented the end of the Depression Era in musicals, the end of lyrics that were fast and mean and bitter, the end of admitting that life was pretty rough for a lot of people who weren't all that equipped to deal with it. During the War one just had to look to see how hellish life was all around the world and what a good deal we had at home...