Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Economists give many reasons for the financial crisis-that the peso is ludicrously overvalued, the government has strained the economy by industrializing too fast, etc. But among other explanations, one pops up with dismaying consistency. Says one Nacionalista member of a Senate committee investigating corruption : "After what this committee has learned, I can safely say that we have in the Philippines today the dirtiest government in the world...
...into a soft shoe with the girls, followed by a hot mambo with one of the girls . . ." The finale: "Onstage, you'll see an exact replica of my New York Mirror prowl car with me in it. I'll go across the stage-very fast. Then 24 beautiful girls -probably in G strings-come out swinging billies like a bunch of fairies with nothing but a silver badge on their left breast, blowing police whistles...
...placed on his back, mouth cleared of all foreign matter, while the rescuer leans down from the side. The rescuer raises the chin of the patient with one hand, forcing open the jaw with his thumb, holds the nose with his other hand. He then blows hard and fast, inflating the victim's lungs, stops when the chest rises so that the lungs can automatically deflate. The cycle is repeated at a rate of 20 inflations per minute until revival. For even more efficient operation (and to spare the finicky rescuer from intimate contact with more messy victims such...
...night wind. The boy looked wildly over his shoulder. He almost wished that somebody had noticed him slip out, but people hardly ever noticed little Alec. "Come on, Guinness!" he told himself between chattering teeth. "Come on!" He began to run. He ran clear around the football field as fast as his scrubby legs could carry him, and then ran round it again. He ran through the side door of the school auditorium. He ran onstage at the instant of his cue (Enter a Messenger), staggered up to the startled young Macbeth and collapsed in a spectacular wreckage of words...
...share (up from $2.63 a year ago). International Business Machines rang up record sales, and its quarterly profits soared to $1.98 a share from $1.78 for 1957's first quarter, when there were fewer shares outstanding. Revlon's earnings edged up slightly to a new record. Fast-moving Polaroid's net jumped to 31?, up from 22?. In tobaccos, R. J. Reynolds (Camel, Winston, Salem) said profits were above the $1.25 a share of a year ago. P. Lorillard President Lewis Gruber, riding the phenomenal rise of filter Rents, reported that January-February earnings soared...