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Word: fasted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indirect effort to have her deadly mission averted. She headed west in her Toyota along Route 24 toward the Oakland-Bay Bridge and jammed down the accelerator, speeding at about 70 m.p.h. At the same time, she slipped six soft-nosed cartridges into her new revolver. "I was driving fast, loading the revolver and hoping I would get stopped for speeding," she claimed later. But no one stopped her, and she drove directly to the Union Square underground parking garage across the street from the St. Francis Hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SHOOTING: FORD'S SECOND CLOSE CALL | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...them the Revolutionary Union and the October League, that seek to organize leftist groups within labor unions. Still other Bay Area activists work in behalf of prison reform, improved veterans' benefits, black rights and increased help for the poor; indeed, new groups and new causes spring up as fast as a poster can be pasted to a utility pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: CALIFORNIA'S UNDERGROUND | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...meal. The day's activities would vary. The women frequently were sent out to steal. If we were near a university, they would go into women's dorms and steal purses. If they managed to get an ID and a checkbook, they'd go out as fast as possible to kite the checks." Another technique was to comb birth records in city halls to find a child who had been born at about the same time as a cell member but who had died in infancy. The name and birth date would then be used in applying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: CALIFORNIA'S UNDERGROUND | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

Part of the Crimson's problem lies in the fact that for the second time this week, the harriers were unable to keep pace after a notoriously fast opening. "The leaders just flew at the start," coach Bill McCurdy said last night. Penn's Dave Merrick "went by the mile at 4:27, and that's not stopping and picking daisies...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Quakers, Columbia Force Harriers to Their Knees | 10/4/1975 | See Source »

...most of the Harvard runners, though, yesterday's race was one which had best be forgotten. What happened, quite simply, was that, in the words of McCurdy, "they blew us out with a fast, early pace, and we're just not ready to run that hard that early. Fitzsimmons looked really good, but everything else went in the other direction...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Friars, Minutemen Obliterate Crimson | 10/1/1975 | See Source »

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