Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does the surcharge seem to be having the desired effect of cooling off the economy. As one piece of evidence that the tax is finally working, the Federal Reserve Board reported last week that the U.S. money supply grew by only 4.5% during the third quarter, barely half as fast as the quarter before. Also, the Commerce Department reported that retail sales declined in October for the second straight month...
Your mind is hiding inside your head, daring only occasionally to peak out through your eyes. What it sees it remembers as being all white and moving very fast at sharp angles...
...Miss Hahn, the troupe's most mature and accomplished performer--rudely pushed a chair across the stage. Then she repeated exactly the same gesture without the chair: we had passed to mime. Finally, again without the chair, she abstracted the gestures, exaggerating them, extending the slow, speeding up the fast, using her whole body to carry out a movement which her foot or her arm had performed alone. Now we had dance. The company passed through the same elaborations to show the use of space, time, and energy. Finally, combining these elements and varying the combinations, they had developed...
Finally a tremendous buildup started in the paper, it really started to build up awfully fast about '46, '47. It was during the war, I sent out a lot of papers to the various camps; and these boys--I got a lot of letters from them, and subscriptions...
...headlines that they claimed were double entendres. I remember one particular headline "Two in Bed, Tangle Lasses." If you read it fast it sounded peculiar. Another one was "Big Balls Win Gal Prize." Of course, it was nothing more than a girl attending a drinking party, and wound up in court, she won the prize for large highballs, though she never collected it. You couldn't put down large highballs, you didn't have room enough, you only had a certain amount of type, you only had 21 units that you could use, and you had to write the whole...