Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outfit had a decided advantage in fielding, but, most of all, they were fast-thinking and extremely base-ball-wise. Men like Bob Cleary, Tom Bergantino, and Frank Saia were never out-hustled or outsmarted--as this year's nine often...
...week's end the union stood fast in its demand for recognition, while the hospitals were equally firm in rejecting it. As State Supreme Court Justice George Tilzer wrestled with motions and counter-motions on the injunction suits, he felt that both sides had forgotten that the patients' welfare should be their first concern, asked exasperatedly: "Has reason been abandoned by all you people?" The question was rhetorical...
...parents across the country are learning, school can expand the marriage rate as well as the mind. Student marriages in Dallas are increasing almost twice as fast as the population of the schools. In 1958 the Dallas rate soared 41% to 480 married students (including nine in grade schools), compared to 286 in 1957 and 72 in 1953. Though one somewhat tardy student was aged 27, last year's marrying kind were mainly (66%) aged 17 or younger, with three 13 or younger. Among them, they had 72 children...
...nine major outbreaks of violence. Hero No. 1 (Fonda), a sort of Good Bad Guy, is a notorious gunman who wears gold-handled Colts. The townspeople of Warlock ask him to protect them from Villain No. 1 (Tom Drake), a Bad Bad Guy with a slow sneer, a fast draw, and plenty of sneaking dry-gulchers on his payroll. Unfortunately, Hero No. 1 refuses to take the job without his sidekick. Villain No. 2 (Quinn), a G.B.G. who turns out to be a B.B.G.-the sort of lowdown skunk that makes his girl friend keep him. So the scriptwriter rings...
...just below his buy order, so that if the stock does not move straight up after he buys, he will be sold out and his loss cut. "I have no ego in the stock market," he says. "If I make a mistake I admit it immediately and get out fast." Darvas thinks his system is the height of conservatism. Says he: "If you could play roulette with the assurance that whenever you bet $100 you could get out for $98 if you lost your bet, wouldn't you call that good odds?" If he has a big profit...