Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were those boys turned down, and, why was I accepted? Simple, yet not so simple. In an age where the individual is fast becoming a thing of the past, the college is still looking for him. I hate the Beatles...
...Will Defend . . ." When confronted last fortnight by mounting evidence that Castro Communists had taken control of the revolt in the Dominican Republic, President Johnson had to act fast: if he had waited for the OAS to debate the whole thing, the Dominican Republic today would almost certainly be a Red-ruled island. Later, in explaining his actions, he enunciated what some have since called "the Johnson Doctrine." It is hardly that, being at most a corollary to the tried and true Monroe Doctrine. Johnson's policy is aimed, with stark simplicity, at barring "the establishment of another Communist government...
What's Topless in Italian? It must decide, for example, whether to include peculiarly Italian uses of English words. Sexy is in conversational use in Italy but implies heights of nubility far beyond the English meaning. A box is a garage for such fast sports cars as spyders, which is a corruption of speeder. A pullman is a long-distance bus; water is short for water closet. Some phrases have been adopted intact, such as strip tease, baby doll, Latin lover and jet set. Topless, fortunately, brings the same vision to Italian men as to Americans...
...Protestants, talk of corporate merger and interfaith cooperation have reduced interdenominational tensions almost to the vanishing point, making it possible for a layman to switch allegiances as painlessly as he changes homes or jobs. As a result, church "conversions" in fast-growing areas often amount to nothing more than "ecclesiastical cannibalism" of the already committed. Many churches in today's mobile America are so busy absorbing transfers that they are content to limit their outreach to people with a high motivation for joining-their own Sunday-school graduates, or suburban couples with children. Of suburban Washington families whose houses...
Such new problems only served to underscore the new epoch in communications that rose with the drum-shaped, 85-lb. satellite. In an age fast growing familiar with man's race beyond the confines of his own world, Early Bird reached back toward the earth and seemed to shrink it almost to room size. All by itself, the satellite blanketed more than one-third of the globe. If two more soar into orbit, for the first time in history it will be literally true that for every nation instant contact will be possible with every inhabited spot on earth...