Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Oct. 2--Gov. Orval Faubus stood fast today on terms of a school integration compromise already firmly rejected by President Eisenhower. The governor left the next move up to the White House...
Weber said that the Office of Naval Research in Boston had been "co-operative" in attempting to secure some ruling on the material remaining in Littauer, but that the examination required was extremely time-consuming and no fast action could be expected...
Bunt & Brag. Held down by such deadly pitching, softball games (except when some industrial giant takes on a church-league team) are low-scoring affairs. The bunt is a favorite offensive weapon. Fast-handed fielders are always ready to charge the plate; the first and third basemen often find themselves playing just a few yards from the batter. Then the second baseman covers first, the shortstop covers third and the centerfielder takes over at second. The hit-and-run is rare, since base runners are permitted no lead...
FARM-EQUIPMENT SALES this year will rise 5% to 15% above 1956, and makers expect a fast fourth quarter followed by a strong market through next year. Reason: prices received by farmers are running about 3% ahead of 1956's; crop prospects for this year are also bright...
...hearing before Captain Carson, Sinclair President J. E. Dyer challenged the program's premise that cheap foreign oil is endangering the nation's security by cutting down oil exploration. Despite accelerated exploration in recent years, he said, the nation's reserves are not increasing fast enough. "To disrupt and impair our sources of supply abroad and jeopardize relationships of industry that have been built up with foreign nations over a long period of years can result in a more serious threat to national security than any temporary excess of crude-oil imports...