Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early years, TIME had a section called Finance, which later became Business & Finance, and then simply Business. In 1962, when economic development in both Europe and Asia had given international business a new importance, we decided to establish a separate section on World Business. In the five fast years since then, the global cross-fertilization of ideas, dollars and goods has proceeded so rapidly that nearly every business story has some international aspect. As a result of this big change in the nature of the subject, the editors decided that it is no longer appropriate to segregate World Business. Beginning...
...gone up against such a dense and withering air-defense system. There is flak, small-arms fire from rooftops, increasingly frisky MIG fighters and portable surface-to-air missiles. To complicate their mission, Washington demands high-precision pinpoint bombing to avoid endangering civilian populations; pilots must get in close, fast, and make no mistakes...
...pitching, all it took to wrap up the game was a pair of runs, both of them supplied courtesy of Leftfielder Lou Brock, 28, the Cards' hardhitting (at .299) lead-off man and baseball's most artful burglar since Maury Wills decided to go straight. Lean, whippet-fast, a master of getting the jump on a pitcher, Brock has stolen no fewer than 189 bases in the last three years, and reform never entered his head last week. Four times he came to bat, four times he singled; twice he stole second, and once he went...
...very first pitch of the second game sent Lou Brock spinning back from the plate; two pitches later Brock popped out to short. That set the pattern. Unable to dig in against Lonborg's low, fast stuff, one after another of the Cards went down-three, then six, nine, twelve. As the tension mounted, 24 Cardinals came to bat, and not one got a hit. At last, with two out in the eighth, St. Louis' Julian Javier looped a hanging slider into leftfield for a double. Lonborg threw his hands to his face. "It was utter agony...
...Harvard may make the mistakes. If, for instance, one of those fast but fragile backs, bobbles the ball a few times, the contest could grind on to a two touchdown to two touchdown affair, with the Crimson winning by a kick...