Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Delano now is that the strikers will resort to violence. Yet Chavez, the militant labor leader, is a devout Roman Catholic who believes perfervidly in pacific means to his ends. Last month, "to recall farm workers to the nonviolent roots of their movement," Chavez began a 25-day fast, living only on water and Eucharistic wafers in a scruffy Delano gasoline station owned by the N.F.W.A...
...attracted to a speechwriter named Ted Sorensen, who apparently drafted Kennedy's kick-off speech Saturday and who cab boast some of the decade's most quoted catch-phrases, including the sinister but obviously popular "Ask not what your country can do for you" line. Kennedy's delivery is fast and clumsy, and his voice squeaks along sometimes unaffected by dropped sentences, grammatical non-sequiturs and patent evasions...
...dual between football heroes Richmond Flowers of Tennessee and Earl "the Pearl" McCullouch of Southern Cal in the 60-yard high hurdles produced more excitement than even the most optimistic fans had anticipated. McCullouch, a flanker on USC's championship team, jumped to his usually fast start. But Flowers, a pass receiver from Tennessee, demonstrated more football skill as he lunged and tumbled past the tape a fraction of a second ahead of his rival. Flowers' time of 7.0 tied McCullouch's NCAA indoor record...
...younger brother, with a forearm like a mutton chop, who was the greatest slugger of all. Beek was shorter and chunkier than Lawrence. Cowles persuaded him to keep hitting harder and harder until his services were so fast that opponents were sometimes hit by the rebounding ball before they could move. Sweeping the American and Canadian Intercollegiates, Beekman added the National Singles...
Finally there was Germain G. Glidden '36, an artist whose portrait of Harry Cowles hangs in Hemenway Gymnasium. Picking out Glidden's lightening speed as his greatest asset, Cowles, with inspired genius, gave him a tricky three wall shot, the "boast," that only an extraordinarily fast player could risk using. Glidden's matches were always played at a blinding tempo, and he captured the National title in '36, '37, '38, and retired undefeated from national play...