Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council should to the extent of its powers try to nullify the new constitution, or recommend an act of censure to the members of the Faculty Committee on Student Affairs. To condone such fast and loose plays now is to lay all organizations open to them in the future...
...seeking a portrait of a great statesman, a national or international prime mover. What we are seeking is a close, fast-moving picture of a man essentially doing what he is supposed to do, under the Constitution, as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives: representing the people of his district and, as a byproduct of that, trying to get himself re-elected." So wrote TIME Associate Editor Champ Clark early this month to TIME Detroit Bureau Chief Marshall Berges, as he outlined the reporting requirements for this week's cover story on Michigan Congressman Charles Chamberlain. Writer...
...soon back again from the glowing legend to distasteful politics-a perfunctory huddle with Kansas' able Gubernatorial Candidate Clyde Reed Jr. ("I'm in his corner." said Ike. "Is that clear enough?"), who has high hopes of unseating wily Democratic Governor George Docking; a fast flight on to Denver, Mamie's home town, where the Eisenhowers' arrival got fouled up by a wretched little scene at the airport. There Ike was greeted and all but engulfed before the photographers by Colorado's Governor Stephen McNichols, another of the Eisenhower era's new Democratic governors...
...fastest moving entrepreneurs is Frank M. McMahon, 54, who waited, checkbook in hand, one morning in August 1947, when the province opened a land office in Victoria, to parcel out oil prospecting rights in the untested Peace River country. Chairman of the board of Calgary's fast-moving Pacific Petroleums Ltd., McMahon paid $1,800,000 for drilling rights on 3,000,000 acres, five years later brought in Peace River's first producer. Today, Peace River ranks as one of the world's great gas fields...
...suggested list prices of most cars, with or without trade-ins. When pressed, dealers commonly offered discounts of $500 to $700 on cars listing at $3,500 or more with extras. Only the Cadillac dealers refused to bargain, figured that their luxury market will run high and fast without discounts...