Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...career and Navy prestige hit a new high when, as Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel, he got the job of executing the decision to demobilize most of the 3,300,000-man Navy fast -"boys home for Christmas." Holloway did the irksome job in chin-out style, standing memorably against all half-threats and pleadings from Capitol Hill and elsewhere to get favored constituents home ahead of their time. One day, when a U.S. Senator brought in a friend to ask a favor, Holloway said in the lawyer's tone that Congressmen understood and admired: "I look...
...Soil Bank's expensive "acreage reserve" section, under which farmers were paid for keeping acres out of corn and other cash crops. Benson himself knows that the $6 billion annual cost of the farm program, big enough to bother Hubert Humphrey, is not likely to come down very fast. But he is heartened by the fact that the new bill at least starts the program in the right direction...
...much do you make here?' The rabbi says: 'Five dollars a week.' 'But how can you live on that?' asks the philanthropist, and the rabbi answers: 'Lucky thing is that I'm a very religious man. If I didn't fast three times a week, I'd go hungry...
Husky (6 ft. 2 in., 195 lbs.) "Ryne" Duren peered at the plate through tinted glasses, promptly unloaded a high inside fast ball that sent Tiger Batter Al Kaline sprawling. The crowd booed. But Duren settled down, retired six straight batters over the next two innings, and threw only three more pitches out of the strike zone. By the time he came to bat in the ninth, the Yankees had given him a 6-5 lead. He squinted at Tiger Pitcher Paul Foytack (Duren's depth perception is poor and his left eye is rated 20/200). Foytack threw high...
...athletes got off to a fast start in the big dual meet with the Soviet Union in Moscow's Lenin Stadium, took an early 42-24 lead as the Russians piled up enough points in the women's events to stay close. U.S. Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly upset Russia's world's-record holder, Mikhail Krivonosov, with a heave of 220 ft. 8.88 in. Other U.S. winners: Ira Murchison (100-meter dash), Glenn Davis (400-meter run), Parry O'Brien (shotput), Ernie Shelby (broad jump), Barbara Jones in the women's 100-meter dash...