Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moon by automated rockets that will provide man's first major remote-controlled exploration. The details of these "lunar probes," combined with a primer called "Introduction to Outer Space," added up to a vision more astounding than any man-made magic yet dreamed of in the fast-paced 20th century. "This," announced President Eisenhower, "is not science fiction. This is a sober, realistic presentation...
Lesson No. 2. Linda parried as best she could, sarcastically yawned that "all this is very curious, very original. I'm only sorry I missed it all. I was fast asleep." The go-home campaign was unnecessary anyway, she added: "I am only here because another man has my passport...
...wrote in chalk on the conference table at which he met with his fellow reformer Zwingli in 1529. and Luther always maintained that when the Christian believer received the host, the bread contained the body of Christ as a glove contains a hand. Luther also stood fast against such other variants of Protestantism as the humanists represented by Erasmus, and the radicals like Nicolaus Storch and Marcus Stubner, who wanted to do away with the apparatus of the church altogether. The ordained minister and the liturgy. Luther maintained, were necessary to the sacraments and the sacraments were necessary...
...which opened-a scant year after bankruptcy-on money provided by angels whose faith in Mike was unshaken. Todd invested early in Cinerama, sold out and invested in Todd-AO, sold his interest in this successful process to help finance 80 Days. He wanted everything to be big, fast, spectacular. On the first anniversary of 80 Days, he threw a party for 18,000 friends in Madison Square Garden that was a spectacular flop. "Well," shrugged Mike, "you can't say it was a little bust...
...Lodestar with Pilot William Verner, 45, Copilot Tom Barclay, 34. and Art Cohn, 49, a film scriptwriter and biographer who was writing The First Nine Lives of Mike Todd. Over the badlands of the Zuni Indian country west of Albuquerque, the twin-engined Lucky Liz was caught in a fast-moving storm. One of the pilots radioed for permission to climb because of icing, got it, radioed back when the plane was at 13,000 feet. Minutes later, a flash like lightning was seen in the hills southwest of Grants, N. Mex. Mike Todd and all aboard were dead...