Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...12th century castle in Ireland. More essentially, she was the first woman (or man) to successfully merchandise not merely creams and lotions, but the "Concept of Total Beauty," to remind women-and indeed, to convince them-that they could and should spend freely in order to "hold fast to life and youth...
Betsy Halstead at 24 is one of the youngest and most experienced female correspondents in Viet Nam. A Temple University graduate, she arrived with her husband Dirck two years ago-he to run U.P.I.'s photography desk, she to report for the bureau. Since then, the fast-moving Philadelphian has scored an impressive number of beats. She was the first reporter to witness and photograph a B-52 raid, and she was first to interview the mayor of Danang after Premier Ky called him a Communist and erroneously announced that he had fled the city. In her tailored sage...
...Monks wore chain mail and were led by bishops wielding battle-axes. The conflict, for Christians, took on the character of a holy crusade, but it was warfare often punctured by periods of peace. Both Moor and Christian often found it more convenient to be brothers than enemies, and fast friendships often developed...
...locations, Florida highways are festooned with white stripes a quarter-mile apart. Orbiting at altitudes of 800 ft. to 1,500 ft., a trooper in a Piper Cub can clock cars whizzing by below. If his stop watch says a car has raced over the quarter-mile stretch too fast (less than 12.8 sec. in a 70-m.p.h. zone), the flying cop radios a cruiser on the ground to make the arrest. All of which goes a long way toward explaining why the highway patrol last year caught a record 3,500 speeders...
...announcement was sudden, it was not exactly surprising. Hertz constantly needs vast amounts of money to purchase new vehicles and open new locations, particularly in foreign nations, where the idea of car rentals has caught on fast. The tight money market has put a damper on the company, forced it, in Greenebaum's words, to "pull back on some experimental work we've been doing in developing new markets." One pullback, for the time being: a market test in which Hertz had been making extra sports cars available to see how eagerly drivers with more funds and free...