Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them free to drift, like whitish blossoms, over "Drop Zone Salerno" at Fort Bragg, N.C. "All troops away," sang the crew engineer into the intercom, and then he began routinely pulling in the static lines, which were wind-plastered against the fuselage. Suddenly he realized that one was stuck fast, looked down and under the plane to see a sprawling jumper being dragged through space, belly up, eight feet beneath the fuselage...
Fanatic Daniel Fignole suffered the disability of excessive ambition. Lunging too fast for power, he postponed the presidential elections originally set for June 16, then maneuvered to get himself a full six-year term without an election. He ordered the army to purge itself of anti-Fignole officers, demanded commissions for his black civilian partisans. Once he routed Brigadier General Antonio Kebreau, the chief of staff, out of bed at 2 a.m. because he wanted to talk...
...Agon (to be given in New York next fall). Agon shows just how far he has gone with tonal-row composition. A 20-minute work, it is scored for "twelve dancers and twelve notes," calls for the largest orchestra since Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements (1945). The fast, heavily percussioned score is cast in patterns of enormous rhythmic complexity. In its sheer harmonic and rhythmic invention, its virility, its brilliance of orchestration, the work is among the most dazzling music Stravinsky has ever written. It has some of the down-to-earth excitement of The Rite of Spring...
...bracket ($500,000 or more annual taxable income on a joint return) took full advantage of trusts. Now, thousands upon thousands of smaller taxpayers in the 22% ($10,000 annually) and up brackets are learning that they, too, can reap impressive savings. And the number is growing so fast that Congress is currently investigating the whole business of tax deductions to see whether the laws should be tightened...
...heroes is Wyatt Earp (Burt Lancaster), the famous marshal of Dodge City; the other is Doc Holliday (Kirk Douglas), a dentist who is terribly fast on the draw. Wyatt saves Doc from a lynch mob. and that is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Doc has been living with a fallen woman (Jo Van Fleet), but pretty soon he throws her back in the gutter and takes up with Earp instead. He follows Earp everywhere, reeking of whisky and gratitude, and twice saves his life from bushwhackers. "Ya done it again. Doc." says Marshal Earp. making a manly effort...