Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...security. The President's second step was his promise that the emergency regulations would be canceled this week. Despite the fact that he had been freed, Bhutto greeted that announcement with skepticism. He had just begun a protest hunger strike, and he vowed that he would continue his fast until the regulations were indeed withdrawn...
...York Rangers' Rod Gilbert, for example, explains that from his right-wing position "with a straight stick and a fast play the shot will slide off my stick like a golfer's slice. But with the curved stick I can hold the puck a second longer, have better control when I fake the goalie, and then whip it into the corner with the left-hand spin and know it won't trail off." Other players say that the sickle stick helps them to scoop the puck off the boards and, by cradling it inside the curve, shield...
...gravity (TIME, Feb. 3, 1967). After the capture, he speculates, an atmosphere and oceans may have formed on the moon and lasted long enough to support the evolution of complex molecules that were forerunners of life. Singer is attempting to complete the theory while keeping one eye on the fast-moving Apollo moon program. "The idea is to try to work all this out before the moon samples are brought back and examined for evidence of such events. That's the real fun of it all-to be able to say 'I told you so.' In science...
...fast-improving Harvard varsity tracksters, sky high after romping to victory in the Greater Boston Collegiate Track Meet last Saturday, should have no problem in handling mediocre Brown today at the "Bubble...
...only because of the vast gulf between the Arab and Israeli positions but also because of the sheer number of participants: the U.S., Russia, Britain, France, Israel, Egypt and Jordan, plus the U.N.'s Jarring. Yet the diplomats already face a stiff penalty for delay in the fast-rising political power of the one interest group that will not be represented, the Palestinian fedayeen commandos. In any settlement, the Israelis will insist that Arab governments curb fedayeen within their own borders, something that they are increasingly unable to do. Moreover, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and Jordan...