Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, little more than two months after the defection of Svetlana Allilueva Stalina, another Communist VIP made the big switch. The highest-ranking Communist diplomat ever to have defected to the West,* Radványi was, in addition, an invaluable source for U.S. intelligence on recent events in the fast-changing countries of Eastern Europe...
Gong Guru. Old Jim swings in other ways. He took LSD before it was fashionable. He digs for relics in Yucatan, goes on three-day fasts. Wearing wrap-around shades on his eyes, and with a cigarette holder between his teeth, he drives his silver Ferrari "as fast as I can everywhere I go, playing little tunes on the gears." For solace, he retreats to his 22-room Spanish villa atop Beverly Hills, sits cross-legged on a leopard-skin pillow, drops his head, closes his eyes, and bongs away on four Japanese gongs and a large hollow log from...
Fireballing Mike Luggen won two games, and struck out the most opponents. The tall Kentuckian, who had arm trouble early in the spring, had a good curve and a moving fast ball. Gus Crimm, when he wasn't playing first base, also saw a good deal of action on the pitcher's mound...
...sophomore captain's major criticism of American rugby is that it is too savage. "Good rugby is a gentlemen's game," says Sione. "Most American players confuse it with football -- and that's the wrong attitude. Rugby is fast-thinking and fast-action, and if a player thinks more, he can be less agressive...
Another reason for refusing the change was that the proposal had not gone through the proper channels, the Masters said. Not only did it happen too fast, without time for all that "searching and evaluation" that Gill talked about, but it came from a single House. "Many of them thought that they should not be bothered by a proposal coming from one House or from one individual," Stewart said. "They thought that it should come from the HUC, a more representative body...