Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the new arrests, and proud to claim credit for them, is a fast-rising Hungarian quisling named Gyorgy Marosan. A flat-nosed, husky ex-baker who once served six years in jail himself for "Titoism," Marosan has now become "the visible one" of Russia's police state in Hungary.* Recently Marosan boasted to laborers at the Csepel metal works: "I am the one who on the night of Oct. 23-24 demanded that Soviet troops should be thrown in." He went on: "Much has been said and written abroad about some arrests. Let us speak about this...
...children. I have six shots ready, one for you and five for me, unless you come." She came, lived out of wedlock with him (they were married some six years later) while he edited a Socialist paper, hawked tips as a waiter ("He was a first-class waiter, fast and always impeccable"). Sighed Rachele: "Those were the best years. He had never learned to shave himself, and I used to shave him every morning...
...nuclear navy is growing so fast, says the trade magazine Nucleonics, that its demand for reactors and other tricky equipment is threatening to block the development of peaceful nuclear power. The Navy's building program, which passed Congress last week, calls for 30 seagoing reactors and six landbound experimental prototypes. Navy officers and Navy contractors are busily learning atomic arts. They all know that nuclear power is sure to dominate the Navy in the near future...
...mood merchants have concentrated on romance (Music for Tired Lovers, Music to Change Her Mind), but dining (Candlelight and Wine) and travel music is also catching on fast (Echoes of Spain, Music for the Nostalgic Traveler). So are such special items as Music for Baby Sitters and Music to Break a Lease. There are mood albums, the record companies boast, for every member of the family and for almost every household activity. Still, the possibilities remain vast. Not yet in the catalogue: Music for Boozing and Music to Soothe Your Hangover, Music to Shave By (so far, the bathroom...
...third speaker from the Philippines explained to the capacity audience in Littauer Auditorium how his country, which has "stood fast" on the side of Democracy, had put down the communist threat...