Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fowl, honkers coming down out of Canada. The season is on, and something rises in the blood of the hunter. It is a passion, remarked upon most lyrically by Ernest Hemingway, who once recalled, "That is the first thing I remember of ducks; the whistly, silk tearing sound the fast wingbeats make; just as what you remember first of geese is how slow they seem to go when they are traveling, and yet they are moving so fast that the first one you ever killed was two behind the one you shot at, and all that night you kept waking...
Word that the superpowers would hold talks early next year in Geneva was the second sign that the Kremlin is looking for a diplomatic opening to the West. The first was that Mikhail Gorbachev, 53, the fast-rising heir apparent to President Konstantin Chernenko, will lead a Soviet delegation to Britain in mid-December. Gorbachev's trip will mark the first visit of a top-ranking Soviet leader to Britain in eight years. For Gorbachev, who has already seen more of the West than all but a few Politburo members, the visit might be the dress rehearsal...
...evacuees took shelter in more than 40 temporary rescue centers. President de la Madrid toured one of these and watched swarms of children and their families gulping beans, rice and tortillas. "We are with you," he said. The government's relief effort was fast and effective, particularly for a nation that has been afflicted by recession, budget cutting and widespread corruption. Some 5,000 police and federal troops sealed off San Juan Ixhuatepec to prevent looting (27 looters were arrested). An additional 3,000 health workers, with 450 ambulances, sped the injured to hospitals and clinics. Within two hours...
...been a long time without a facebook, and we don't know who anyone is," said Louis M. Rios '86, one of the strikers. Although only Rios and the three other juniors have so far decided to fast, the group circulated a petition outside the dining hall last night to muster other students' moral support...
Clark is just one member of what the coach considers the best freshman group he has fielded in his 15 years at the helm of the Crimson--and the Yardlings join 11 returning lettermen from fast year's 11-8 (3-3 Ivy) squad...