Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...race started off at a fast pace, with Bickford barely waiting for the gun to sound before making his move and claiming the lead. The Harvard trio of Meyer, Sheehan, and Murphy claimed the three, four and five spots through the one-mile mark, splitting...
...business and the President's brother's brew would disappear. Officials of the company, who were paying Carter a reported $50,000 a year for the use of his name and his promotional services, claim that sales went well at first but were dropping off fast. Falls City President James Tate suggests that the beer "sank with the popularity of the President," but poor quality is a more plausible cause. Billy still has an entry in the beverage business: his peanut-flavored liqueur...
...exhaustion. Shaped into an institution by the growing system of critics, dealers, curators and Government cultural agencies, the once fragile and isolated-looking works of Pollock, Rothko, de Kooning, Gorky and their peers became the emblems of a cultural empire: no style or movement since surrealism was diffused so fast, or imposed itself as completely on painters around the world. But the earlier work of these artists, done before, during and just after World War II, is still patchily known. Last week the first thorough retrospective of it, "Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years," went on view at New York City...
...most Americans-were living in two different centuries, desperately trying to adjust to rapid industrialization, yet holding on fiercely to the homespun values of 19th century rural America. Wrote the Lynds: "A citizen has one foot on the relatively solid ground of established institutional habits, and the other foot fast to an escalator erratically moving in several directions at a bewildering variety of speeds." Now a new team of sociologists headed by Theodore Caplow of the University of Virginia has moved in on Muncie to update the Lynds with a study titled Middletown III. Though not yet complete...
...kind of reverse psychology," he said, but if you try too hard for the dangling carrot out in front of you, all you do is spend your energy too fast too soon; and when it comes time to get the carrot, you can't do it. You just gotta learn to have patience," he explained...