Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought is like the ocean -you can enjoy it from shore, you can cool off your feet, you can wade in and swim, you can jump in the middle and swim, but unfortunately, as the Herr Professor would be the first to agree, if you swallow too much too fast you can drown...
...decision, he had seen what was coming and, in high good humor, summoned newsmen to the Kremlin for his second press conference since taking power (see FOREIGN NEWS). He told how his six-month deadline for the West to meet his Berlin demands had not really been hard and fast, and he accepted-without being formally notified-the May 11 date for the foreign ministers' conference, probably in Geneva. But real results, he said, could only come at the summit: "Let's put in the heavyweights...
...Fast as the Communists could pass the ammunition, Radio Baghdad fired back that Nasser was the honorary President of the Egyptian Freemasons' lodge and hence, naturally enough, a partner of Zionism. Who was to blame for the unsuccessful Mosul uprising? "The blood of Mosul's free men will haunt you, Gamal," railed the Baghdad announcer. Taunted Radio Cairo: "Iraqis now call their government 'the rule of the Red butcher...
...present, the committee can boast only 15 members, five or six of whom are "consistently energetic," and the dreams of national influence are fading fast. "Students feel that the policies involved are too complicated to be tackled by private citizens," said President David Hamilton '62, "and the initial wave of interest in getting negotiations started has subsided, leaving us to cross our fingers and hope a compromise will be worked...
...Johnson is strictly a control pitcher," Shepard said; "he can pitch to the corners; we used him largely in relief last year; and he is the smartest of the group.... Cook? Well, Cook has more stuff than Johnson--a good curve-ball and a pretty good fast one, too.... The others? Well, they haven't shown us a lot yet.... My gosh if anything happens to those first two follows (cook and Johnson), the games will last till after dark...