Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lowest. It was a great political service and Fund Raiser Johnson knew what he wanted. Harry Truman made a few halfhearted attempts to fob him off with offers of the sub-Cabinet Army secretaryship or the Court of St. James's. But Louis Johnson stood fast. The weekend after his inauguration, President Harry Truman let Louis Johnson know that the prize was his at last...
...posts of heavy responsibility. They have displayed shrewd political talent, but they still tend to approach economic problems as scholarly theorists rather than as practical politicians. They know that Italy's hope lies in improved farming methods and more industrialization, but they are not able to move fast enough toward their goals. Said one high-ranking American in Rome: "Unless we do more than we have in the past year, unless we move faster, we might as well walk out of here in 1953 [when EGA ends] and let the Communists take over...
...looked like a magnificent mulatsdg.* In Budapest's carnival-bright streets, workers danced the csdrdds and the rumba, while youngsters jitterbugged. In parks, tents had been set up for the distribution of goulash and other delicacies; beer flowed as fast as it once did at Tammany picnics. Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi had ordered weeks of countrywide fun and frolic to get the voters into the proper mood for Hungary's national elections. As in all such well-run Communist affairs, there was no opposition; the communist "People's Independence Front" presented a single list of candidates...
Calumet's greatest pair, while the same age (four) and the same height (16 hands), are poles apart in temperament and style. Citation is the class horse, a rugged bay that runs only as fast as he has to. "A Chinaman could train him," says Ben Jones. The only one he is hard on around the barn is his exercise boy; he gets his head low in morning gallops and just about pulls his rider's arms out of their sockets. He is a glutton for feed...
...Deevey explain it all? Well, says he, during the fourth glacial age the flora and the fauna of England and of Ireland, which at that time were part of the European continent, took the cold and perished. Then the ice melted and the sea rose isolating Ireland and England. Fast moving little hedgehogs, shrews and stoats came galloping from Europe to Ireland across a narrow bridge of land before the sea closed in. As for the slower snakes, they got only as far as England. And that, should the professor be right, was no better than they deserved...