Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next time we see her, she is whistling men off the streets back in Poland for 25 rubles worth of fun. If her passion still burns for Niepolomski, who by this time has landed in prison and made a fast marriage for money, Ewa certainly carries her torch in some strange positions...
...Time Wasted. The jungle crushers were not Ludwig's only costly miscalculation. In place of the native forest he planned to plant broad tracts of Gmelina, a fast-growing Asian tree that takes a mere ten years to reach the age when it can be cut for lumber and pulp. In contrast, American cottonwood, which is similar to Gmelina in quality and yield, requires at least 30 years to reach maturity. But again the Amazon proved more complex than Ludwig's experts imagined. His property contained at least two distinct types of soil, one unsuitable for Gmelina. Now about...
...pair of black dress shoes. He visits congenially with his employees and their families, talking about the future with the energy of a man half his age. Says Volker Eisenlohr, the German-born manager of the kaolin project: "When I first met him 13 years ago, he said, 'Go fast, I only have four years left.' Now he is still saying the same thing." His people, by all appearances, have taken the hint: they are still going fast...
...star of the show was the electorate, a group so narrowly divided in its choice for President that network oracles had little time for cosmic generalizing. Recapping the fast-shifting vote totals left little air time for analysis. "Who was winning became the analysis," said NBC'S Wald. Voters may have yearned for more than a play-by-play, but on Election Night television when the contest is close, it matters less how a candidate won or lost than when...
...other end of town, Ralph Gawber, an aging accountant, is also waiting. But Gawber's personal drama is not of a new beginning, it is of surviving by "patience, belt-tightening and bookkeeping" through the fast-approaching end. The chaos of migrant families spilling onto his road and the snatches of other people's conversations that Gawber hears over his apparently interconnected telephone wires have deeply disturbed his sense of order and privacy. So like a conspirator, alone with his wife in their enormous house, Gawber "guards against alarm." He has seen the handwriting on the wall. He knows what...