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Word: fasted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Following his speech, Bush took off in a chartered DC-9 for a four-day, nonstop tour of most of the New England states and Florida and Alabama-all crucial to him because of their early February and March primaries. He must make a good showing fast or he is almost sure to sink among all the contenders. At each stop Bush, lean, elegant and softspoken, handled the crowds with the easy grace of a Yankee patrician to the political manner born. His father, Prescott Bush, was a Senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1962. George Bush went to Phillips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Patrician Entry for the G.O.P. | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...investigators say that the companies just played fast and loose in interpreting the rules. One mind-boggling example of the old-new complexity: a now revised regulation stating that all petroleum pumped from a field that had even one well drilled before 1973 must be classified as being old oil. The idea was to stop companies from getting new-oil prices by drilling new wells into old reservoirs after 1973. The companies are accused of, among other things, ignoring this provision whenever they actually struck new oil in an old-oil field. Instead of selling it as old oil, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Big Oil Bummer | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...others put together. A collection of 29 of his essays was published in 1974 under the title The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher. No one expected much, least of all the author. For one thing, most Americans escape from the study of biology as fast as their teachers will let them; if they think of the subject at all, they are likely to remember rubbery dead frogs and the smell of formaldehyde. For another, Thomas made few concessions to the ignorance of laymen. He certainly did not obfuscate, but he gave complex matters the taxonomic precision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Celebration of Life | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...rains today and the match is played indoors on Jadwin Gym's super-fast tennis courts, the Crimson's chances will suffer. Princeton is very tough outdoors at home. They are almost unbeatable indoors...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Netmen Battle Princeton For Eastern League Title | 5/9/1979 | See Source »

...symbolist, working in an age of symbols. The imposing and inculating role symbols play in our lives--all the flags in the world, cigarette brands, fast-food chains and supermarkets, groupies, cliques and teams and fetishes and Brooks Brothers and every manner of damned patriotism--has sprung forth a new kind of cynicism...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Street Symbolist Finds Her Ark | 5/8/1979 | See Source »

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