Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard scoring got off to an atypical fast start as sophomore Andy Kydes tallied on a penalty kick less than five minutes into the first period. Tony Davies, Harvard's 1963 captain, evened things for the Alumni at 13:05 of the first with a low shot into the left gale of the goal...
JAKE: The buildings' stark shells enwrapping the fervid human dramas unrolling in moments of lightning-fast perception before my very eyes so that I can scarce catch my breath between sobs...
...goal is to do away with the need for a lengthy trial by producing a fast guilty plea-a "cop-out." And, after weeks in a county jail, many a criminal defendant is more than willing to plead guilty, to settle for a judge's quick sentence rather than insist upon his constitutional right to trial by jury. To spur the copout, prosecutors may offer a variety of guilty pleas to lesser charges...
Three major events broke with an abruptness that gave editors little time for orderly planning: the Walter Jenkins scandal, the deposing of Soviet Premier Khrushchev, the detonation of Communist China's first Abomb. Along with these came another flurry of fast-breaking news, including the new Nobel prizewinners and the unveiling of the U.S.'s controversial TFX fighter-bomber. And, as if that were not enough, newspapers had to cope with such predictable front-page stuff as the wind-up of the World Series, the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, and the British elections...
While some sheiks haggle like bazaar veterans for the extra half-percent interest that is paid for whopping deposits (top: 7%), a few devout Moslems refuse to accept any interest at all on their oil millions. In Beirut's amazingly liquid and fast-moving money market, the bankers quickly pump their funds into short-term loans at up to 12%, finance everything from Pakistani exports and Saudi imports to local ski resorts and new cars. They seek to combine security with the plump profits of quick turnover, shun long-term credits or collateral-free personal loans...