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Word: fasted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...understand this is a time of great introspection, a time to be humble. And with the pope coming to Boston on Yom Kippur, we'll have especially sacred holidays this year. I was at services Friday night, and I promise to fast extra long on Yom Kippur. One thing I am kind of upset about missing is the sounds of the shofar: The Harvard Band won't be a very uplifting substitute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Year: Prayer Before Entering the Lions' Den | 9/22/1979 | See Source »

...David just went out too fast in the 200 and couldn't keep up the pace," Walsh said...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: A Change in Altitude | 9/20/1979 | See Source »

...Alper is now the man at the helm in Gloucester, the man of cast-iron holding fast to the wheel during a gale stirred by politics, business, and basic American principles. He's in an impossible position--as are all the critics of Moon and his associated business enterprises--because at every complaint about International Seafood's corporate advantages and "evil" connections, Barry may utter: "We have as much a right, as a tax-exempt institution, to invest in businesses. Why should we forfeit out Constitutional rights? Because we are 'Moonies?' Why did they call blacks 'niggers...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: God's Catch | 9/19/1979 | See Source »

...America, the passions aren't as overtly political, not yet anyway. But the musical conditions are the same--an explosion of bands that can play good, loud, fast rock and roll in towns that have probably never heard it before. Bands that you can hear just by walking into a local club on any night; bands that you don't have to buy tickets for months in advance; bands that have only a guitar, a bass, and a drummer, and couldn't care less that they don't have a French horn. And more bands than any record label could...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Memos From Turner | 9/19/1979 | See Source »

...Hate an War--the only things there are today," "Career opportunities are the ones that never knock," "If Adolf Hitler flew in today, they'd send a limousine anyway," and other statements of nihilism and frustration that can only fan the flames of discontent. Their music is loud, crude, fast, and shunned by listeners with taste...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Memos From Turner | 9/19/1979 | See Source »

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