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Word: fasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goal just 23 seconds after the opening whistle. An horrendous defensive lapse by the varsity while trying to clear the puck let Bill Daley move in alone on Harry Pratt for the score. Three and one-half minutes later the same thing happened, and B.C. was off to a fast 2-0 lead...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: B.C. Overcomes Varsity In Hockey Opener, 3-1 | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...week of fast-breaking Foreign News stories, most of the rest of the news did not have to be laboriously dug out of statistics or pried out of travelers. On the hint of trouble in the Sudan, Curtis Prendergast flew into Khartoum from Johannesburg, arriving the day the generals took over. In Tokyo, Alexander Campbell filed a detailed story on the crown prince's betrothal that no Japanese newspaper had yet dared print. In Berlin, a TIME correspondent learned about Mayor Willy Brandt's late-hour habits while talking far into the night with the man whose strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 1, 1958 | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...Geneva, the U.S.'s smoldering debate about stopping nuclear tests-more or less tamped down by the President's decision last August to stop tests for one year-fanned into new flame. The Atomic Energy Commission and the Pentagon, convinced that prolonged test suspension would play fast and loose with U.S. military posture, argued for resuming low-fallout tests. And last week the advocates of full test suspension, centered in President Eisenhower's Science Advisory Committee under M.I.T.'s James Rhyne Killian, loosed a bitter counterattack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: New Flame for a Feud | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...Shepheard's Hotel glimmered palely in the Cairo night, and its veranda lights were reflected in the Nile. In a fifth-floor suite three-year-old Prince Nawaf of Saudi Arabia lay fast asleep. In the bedroom of a similar suite three floors below dozed the Begum Aga Khan, 52, a handsome Frenchwoman who was "Miss France of 1932" and is the widow of the wealthy Aga Khan, who lies buried 500 miles upriver at Aswan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: The Djinni in the Bedroom | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...home. Prime Minister Kishi of Japan got one for his 62nd birthday, and a Belgian expedition setting out for the Antarctic announced it was taking 20 along to keep its members fit and happy. Not since the Yo-yo had a U.S. craze spread so far so fast. The hula hoop had circled the globe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRENDS: Hula-la! | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

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