Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boilerplate & Bumpkin Prose. In many areas, fast-growing suburbs have produced weekly and semiweekly chains that are as slick in appearance and informative in content as their city cousins. Chicago's Arlington Heights Herald and seven other suburban weeklies (combined circ. 20,630) owned by Paddock Publications led all U.S. weeklies last year in advertising volume. Cleveland's Heights Sun-Press (circ. 29,000), serving 14 communities, runs a regular Washington column on subjects that affect suburbanites, boasts that none of the political candidates or school bond issues it has backed in twelve years has been defeated...
...born a German princess, came to Russia in 1744 to marry Grand Duke Peter (later Peter III), she found the nucleus of an imperial art collection started by Peter the Great, her husband's grandfather. After Catherine had forced her way to the throne in 1762, she sent fast-spending agents throughout Europe to send back wagonloads of just about anything on canvas that was for sale. "I am,'' she said, "a glutton...
...lean six-footer, Ed Bronfman has been pushed ahead fast. He started with Seagrams as a teen-aged brewer and blender in Montreal, became his father's assistant after graduating with honors in history from McGill University in 1951. In 1955 he moved to Manhattan as chairman of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons' administrative committee...
Forte and Dwyer between them tallied 61 points. The fast, shifty, 5-9, 145 1b. Forte drove and scrapped his way to 29 points, about the same average which has made him the nation's second top scorer, behind Kansas's seven-foot skyscraping Wilt Chamberlain. He was outperformed by his side-kick, however, as the 165 1b. Dwyer made good on 9 of 17 shots, many from the corners, and 14 free throws for 32 points...
...Lions pulled ahead during the short spurt largely on fast breaks. Time after time the Crimson would be caught empty-handed as one of Columbia's speedy guards would be racing toward the basket to catch a long pass and dribble in for an easy basket...