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Word: fasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rocket that flies upward just as a rocket should-and then comes back to earth too fast for its own good. See SCIENCE, Man-Made Meteor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, may 6, 1957 | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...Earl Evans Jr. as chairman and Representative Thompson McClellan as vice chairman. Behind their move was the fact that oxcart legislators from the Delta and Coleman's own hill counties are afraid that a new constitution will apportion them out of jobs and funnel more revenue to the fast-growing cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: Toward the 20th Century | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

Dancer Holder credits the birth of his fast-moving career to his Negro father, a "salesman with brains" in Port of Spain, Trinidad, who said, "If you put the tools in front of the baby, the baby will walk up to the tools." One day daddy Holder went out and blew the rent money on a piano. Pretty soon Geoffrey's older brother, Boscoe, began to bang at the keyboard in the evenings, and Geoffrey copied him. When Boscoe developed a taste for painting and then for dancing, Geoffrey copied him again. Endowed with natural rhythm and a body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tornado From Trinidad | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...center at Notre Dame, 38-year-old Footballer Brock heads the university men's physical education department and doubles as a line coach. "At first these fellows think it's all for the birds," admits Brock, "but dancing pulls them down a peg. They learn that a fast square dance is work. There are maneuvers and muscles used in Arkansas Traveler that you won't use doing a hand-off or making a tackle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shall We Dance? | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...Hampshire squad, dominated by football players, has always been a fast and rough outfit. It enjoyed a very successful Southern trip and has tied the Boston Lacrosse Club, which over-powered the Crimson two weeks ago by a score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Varsity To Face Strong UNH Ten Today | 5/1/1957 | See Source »

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