Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviets have an air of dynamism, they asserted, because they have attained a position of equal power with the United States in only 40 years. This show of "Operation Bootstrap" contrasts with the look America gives, that of trying to "hold fast" instead of advancing forward...
...orders pile up and confidence grows during 1959, Mitchell & Co. reason, employers will come around to deciding that adding workers makes more sense than adding overtime. Then hiring will turn up, and the unemployment total will start shrinking fast...
Potshots and all. Kennedy was obviously running first and fast. Said National Chairman Paul Butler, a perennial Stevenson backer, last week, "I would be less than fair if I did not say Senator Kennedy has substantial support throughout the country. Perhaps more than any other potential candidate...
Mason might have scrapped the hearing aid altogether if he had grown up with Pamela's family: "There were six of us, and we had to talk fast. My mother was half Irish, half Welsh, and she talked all the time-more than I do now." Pamela's Russian-born father (British Movie Pioneer Sir Isidore Ostrer) was not far behind in his rumpled English. The family stopped talking when Pamela's parents were divorced (she was eleven: "All of a sudden I was sort of grown up"), but her training paid off. Running away from school...
...practitioners of this tricky craft is a little (5 ft. 1 in.) Californian of 52 named Edith Head, boss designer at Paramount since 1937. In her autobiography The Dress Doctor (Little, Brown; $3.95; written with Jane Kessner Ardmore) Edith gushily suggests that a designer must drop names as fast as she picks up stitches...