Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Facilities bill designed to pump 3½% loans into worthy town and city public-works projects, which Banking and Currency Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright had reported onto the Senate floor for speedy action. Before the day was done, stolid Bill Knowland's slowdown had rolled into a fast-moving Republican revolt against the well-laid plans of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson...
Nose Count. Democrat Johnson, leaving early for an Easter vacation on his LBJ ranch in Texas, had put Montana's Mike Mansfield, assistant majority leader, in his chair as straw boss. Johnson also left orders that Bill Fulbright's bill was to be pushed through fast. Mansfield made a try; in the best Johnson tradition he threatened to keep the Senate sitting for as long as necessary to debate and pass the measure. But Bill Knowland's nose count showed that the G.O.P. had votes enough to stall the Fulbright bill at least until after Easter...
...brain-picking, Gunther was so likable and professionally esteemed that he was elected first president of Vienna's Anglo-American Press Association in 1931. With his small, assertive first wife Frances, Gunther was as famed even then for doughty partying as for hard work. In his spare time, fast-working Gunther wrote dozens of political pieces for magazines ranging from Foreign Affairs to Woman's Home Companion...
Unfortunately for Pajarito. neither the referee nor Bassey was listening. After a between-rounds breather in Los Angeles' Wrigley Field last week. Bassey came back to throw so many punches so fast that his muscular Mexican opponent might as well have been tilting with a windmill. A savage uppercut separated Moreno from his mouthpiece with such violence that third-row fans caught the spray. Even when he was completely off balance, Bassey almost removed Moreno from his haircut with a pair of left hooks and a right uppercut delivered in split-second succession. At the end of the third...
...original quota of air as long as it stays down. And that air is fouled by crew members' smoking, which in time can produce a higher monoxide level than did the old diesels. Both carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide must be removed, by elaborate nitration processes, as fast as possible. When the two gases are present together, even in amounts that would be safe if considered separately, the monoxide reinforces the poisonous powers of the dioxide...