Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appointment to the Maritime Commission, and the post of U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's (at the time an especially intriguing position for an Irish Catholic Kennedy). Though he ever after cherished the title of "Ambassador," the post did not work out well. He became fast friends with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, endorsed appeasement and returned home stunned and embittered after Hitler marched into Poland...
...sense. He knew what to use his money for-how to have fun with it. Joe bought all those houses. He made all those movies. He understood about buying himself positions in government-London, for example. And he knew how to use money to push his children along as fast as they could be pushed. Yes, he knew what money...
...anymore, you can't. The side-wheel riverboats that Rudyard Kipling wrote about in the far-off days of the Empire are disappearing fast. At least a third of the ancient riverboats of Rangoon's nationalized Irrawaddy Flotilla Co. is laid up for lack of parts. The rest operate with dismaying irregularity. Like just about everything else in Burma, they have suffered in the grip of economic and political paralysis that strongman Ne Win calls "the Burmese Way to Socialism...
Posterity moves feverishly fast these days, and Hair has not been slow to acquire feeble disciples, September's Salvation and now November's Stomp...
...exports. In the long run, the strength of the dollar greatly depends on that effort. The U.S. trade surplus used to average $5 billion a year. This year the surplus will total less than $1 billion, mainly because imports have risen 50% over the past three years, twice as fast as exports. Much of the blame can be laid to U.S. inflation, but not all of it. Farm exports have fallen sharply, largely because Common Market countries have unloaded surplus grain, chickens and other produce abroad at subsidized prices...