Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact omitted from your article is needed to explain how the business affiliates of the N.F.U. organization have accumulated so much money so very fast. The answer is that the $33 million Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association, the $75 million Farmers Union Central Exchange and other cooperatives wearing the N.F.U. label pay little or no federal income tax. Other businesses of similar magnitude...
...loved one of the Mick's boys, olive-skinned, handsome Johnny Stompanato. A small-town boy with big ideas, Johnny was a preening gigolo, brushed his black hair thick and wavy, wore his shiny silk shirts open all the way down to his navel. He was also the fast-buck type, who, police well knew, built his bankroll by making time with thrill-seeking wealthy women, borrowed their money, rarely paid it back. Lana took Johnny in tow, paid his bills, flashed around the town on his muscular arm. When she flew to London last September to make...
Frightened, Cheryl fled to the kitchen, headed for her mother's room with a knife. "I walked toward the bedroom door," said Lana. "He was right behind me. And I opened it and my daughter came in. I swear it was so fast, I truthfully thought she had hit him in the stomach ... I never saw a blade...
...Department of English will probably offer seven new half courses next year, it was learned yesterday. Five of these stressing interconnections of the periods and genres in English Literature, appear to be in line with the Department's new policy to avoid hard and fast categories...
Applying Research. President Crosby, a self-taught scientist who did not graduate from college ("I am probably the only rocket-company president without a degree"), credits much of Thiokol's fast climb to its investment in research. Thiokol's top executives, almost all scientists, put 9% of sales into research, mostly applied research because Crosby holds that some scientists spend too much brainpower on basic research, have "too damn much independence from management." On the other hand, Thiokol encourages all of its 450 scientists to devote 10% of their time to their own pet projects, even more time...