Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...massive slaughter campaign to halt the spread of the disease, which affects almost all hooved animals, has turned Britain's prize stock farms into scenes of tragic carnage. Squads of soldiers, equipped with captive-bolt pistols and high-power rifles, have been killing cattle in infected areas as fast as they can shoot. More than 280,000 cows, bulls, sheep and pigs have already been slaughtered. Tractors pull the piles of carcasses to massive graves, and the pyres of burning animals nightly throw their smoke into the Shropshire sky. Soldiers and airmen have sprayed thousands of gallons of disinfectant...
When a new gut appears, the word travels fast. Meteorology 100 at the University of Wisconsin drew 400 students one semester, 800 the next. The Rev. Thomas J. Brennan's freshman philosophy course at Notre Dame is so popular, and easy, that enrollment is limited-and athletes and foreign students seem to be preferred. Their most difficult task is putting up with Father Brennan's idiosyncrasy of flipping matchbooks at them during class. Catching them is not easy; he has developed a curve and a slider...
...with 8:57 to go, the visitors' Jim Kroll--apparently on his way to scoring a fast break layup-- was called for charging. That play marked the turning point...
...Fast-skating Chip Otness and Dwight Ware had no trouble kiling the penalty, but couldn't do anything to change the score. Harvard came close when Bobby Bauer's line got back on the ice. Ron Mark made a strong solo bid that missed, then Bauer set up a two-on-one break. Bauer worked it perfectly and got the puck to Mueller, coming in alone. But the junior wing shot it straight into McPhee's midsection...
With 6-3 John Tolmie bombing over the Crimson zone, and captain Hughie Kilmartin leading a running fast break through the Harvard man-to-man press, Navy built a commanding margin in the first thirty minutes of play...