Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outpouring. All week Foster Dulles, coming back fast from his hernia surgery (TIME, Feb. 23), had been crowded by hospital routine. "You never have a minute," he grumbled to his State Department aide, Joseph Greene Jr. Dulles made no attempt to call Acting Secretary Christian Herter or to mix in State business. He took pleasure in afternoon and evening visits from wife Janet, in a unanimous Senate resolution praying for recovery of "beloved John Foster Dulles," in a phenomenal outpouring of 8,000 letters, telegrams and get-well cards...
...fast fortnight, diplomats had pulled the fuse out of the Cyprus time bomb. They were rightfully hailed for their good will and their statesmanship. But it finally took old-fashioned steamroller tactics to turn the trick. The steamroller ran right across both the British and bearded Archbishop Makarios, the temperamental star of the Cyprus drama...
Waiting for Joy. It had all happened so fast that many-including most Cyp-riots-felt a sense of relief but not yet of exhilaration. Their first responses were tentative and uncertain. Seven hundred young Turkish Cypriot students paraded through Nicosia, shouting the old cries-"Death to Makarios!"-but were easily dispersed. In one town Greek church bells pealed for 20 minutes after the London agreement was announced, then stopped. No one was quite sure how to react. What would happen to Colonel George Grivas, mysterious leader of the EOKA terrorist underground, who once pledged himself to keep on fighting...
...Mlvky, Al Schwalt, and George Schmidt will lead the Quaker attack, which is basically of the fast break variety, although hampered by a lack of solid rebounding. Set shot specialist Paul Rubincam and hard-driving John Follman will round out the starting five...
...failed. I fell into a sadness, then into a fast, thence to a watch, thence into a weakness, thence to a lightness, and by this declension, into the madness wherein now I rave, and all you wail...