Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Since World War II, the total tax take of state and local governments has risen 3½ times as fast as the federal take...
Early nuclear reactors were easy to slap down. If one of them made what physicists euphemistically call an "excursion" -i.e., started to react too fast -it could be slowed down by pushing into it a simple rod of neutron-absorbing material. Control rods are still used, but the operators of big modern reactors dare not depend on them alone. Under some conditions, the fierce nuclear fire in the reactor's core can make a disastrous excursion in a fraction of a second...
Fortnight ago the contest went into a finale that surprised even Burden. At a minute past midnight of Sunday, May u, the value of the prize was to plunge to a piddling $1,000. Suddenly the clues grew tantalizingly specific, zeroed in on a fast-developing Denver suburb in Jefferson County. A weekend mob of some 25,000 people converged on the area, besieged it round the clock. The treasure hunters climbed trees, trampled new lawns, rummaged through garbage cans, shined flashlights into bedrooms, invaded homes to use toilets, even scaled a householder's roof to case his chimney...
...heartening to see that Fast can once again freely practice his profession. It is saddening that this new freedom of his comes not from any renewed belief among Americans in the right to the pursuit of happiness, but as a by-product of Fast's revulsion after Khrushchev's anti-Stalin speech...
This new respectability not only covers Fast's current works, but extends backwards to include the novels written during his card-carrying days. The novel sold to the movies this week is Spartacus, which Fast was forced to publish himself in 1951 because nobody else would. Evidently, then, the silence that boxed him in during the early Fifties was not imposed to eliminate Communist propaganda...