Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short dozen years since drug treatment of some mental illnesses was shown to be effective, medical psychiatry (as distinct from the talk-it-out schools) has taken giant strides. Now the pace is so fast that last week Psychiatrist Theodore R. Robie had the temerity to tell a group of critical professional colleagues of a promising treatment that he has been investigating for only five weeks...
...well: it has jumped from 14.3% to 21.1% of the German market since 1952 (v. Volkswagen's 32.5%). It has just discovered, however, that while pursuing Volkswagen it will have to keep a sharp eye on the rearview mirror. Reason: Ford's German subsidiary is coming up fast from the rear. Fortified by new and attractive models, heavy investment and good management, Ford has captured 19.6% of the German market with its Taunus cars, pulling to within honking distance of Opel and bringing the two U.S.-owned companies closer to domination of Germany's auto market. Last...
...only bad men but also the clan of bungling innocents whom he is trying to protect, and who keep spoiling his stratagems in their eagerness. It has most of Kurosawa's stylistic tricks: tangles of shrubbery set between you and the action; shots of different people running, connected by fast cutting; omission or understatement of the climax of a comic episode, leaving you to assume that what was going to happen, happened...
...time he runs he closes like a ball of fire and just misses winning. He seems to lack the comph needed in the stretch run. If Hall to All were running against my grandmother in, a mile-and-a-quarter match race he'd find a way to close fast and finish second...
...Saturday's race. I was in a quandry until I came across the chart of the Blue Grass Stakes at Kenneland Race Track, one of the many possible stepping-stones to the Derby. The race was won by Lucky Debonair, an invader from the West Coast, in the lightning-fast time of 1:49. In the Blue Grass, a horse by the name of Swift Ruler came from ten lengths behind and battled it out with Lucky Debonair in the stretch, losing by a scant half length...