Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point: "I don't think he's going to back down, but I believe he's left a slight loophole or two-a slight escape hatch." Humphrey "hammered it in" that Americans regardless of political party affiliation, support President Eisenhower in his determination to stand fast in Berlin...
...Communist nations hold fast to policies which deter armed aggression; if they prevent subversion through economic processes; and, above all, if they demonstrate the good fruits of freedom, then we can know that freedom will prevail...
Despite some spectacular experimental failures and some anguished cries that the U.S. has lost its touch, the nation is deep into the most intensive, fast-moving and spectacularly promising scientific development program of its history. One sign was the Army's attempt to shoot the moon from Cape Canaveral last week-an attempt that was rated a failure because the Army's Pioneer III stopped rising after a breathtaking 66,654 miles out, gravitated back to burn up in earth's atmosphere (see SCIENCE). Another was the almost routine Defense Department announcement of an open-ended, long...
...almost incredible. And to two-term Republican Governor Victor Anderson, 56, the idea of losing to Democrat Ralph Brooks, 60, superintendent of schools at McCook and president of McCook College, seemed completely incredible: Brooks began dabbling at politics in the early 1940s, had since become noted only for his fast-talking style (he was once clocked at 487 words in one minute) and for a speech titled "Nebraska" that he delivered more than 300 times. Last week, in fact, after the official count of the 1958 election showed that Nebraska's farm revolt had given Brooks 211,424 votes...
...further reports made veteran "birdwatchers" sense that something had gone slightly wrong. Later that night came confirmation : Dr. Wernher von Braun, the Army's top space man, admitted that Juno II had missed perfection by a thin but sufficient hairbreadth. It was still climbing, but not climbing fast enough to get near the moon...