Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over the volcano to see if it had begun to erupt. "We were over the sea when suddenly the cloud into which we were about to fly turned out to be a cloud of ash from the volcano," he said. "I can tell you we got out of there fast...
...Kansas City coverage have been almost a yearlong task. One essential was the setting up of an extensive communications network. A 45-telephone system links staffers at centers of activity around the city; correspondents carry beepers so they can be alerted and, if necessary, rerouted to a fast-breaking event. High-speed facsimile machines are transmitting Nation copy via telephone wires to TIME'S Copy Desk/computer-typesetting center back in New York...
...1960s, Abercrombie opened branches in San Francisco, Troy, Mich., and Colorado Springs, and it began dealing more in fashion. Other high-priced stores-notably Tiffany-successfully made the difficult transition to a broader market by combining friendliness with lower-priced items, but A. & F. did not move far or fast enough. As recently as the mid-1960s, complains a New York advertising man, A. & F. was run "like a stuffy club"-still catering to wealthy Midwestern physicians who take four weeks off to shoot game in Wyoming. Young, affluent skiers, backpackers and tennis players came into A. & F. to admire...
...want a little more than fresh air, sunshine, the chance to meet a few new girls and to save a life now and then, a pal helps him to find a job selling Porsches. Rick will finish out this last season on the beach and then start peddling fast cars to the upwardly mobile even as he enlists in their ranks...
...Rocky Mountain spotted fever), hematologists, lexicologists, and veterinarians. All the lab scientists and technicians wore protective masks, gowns and gloves and worked under exhaust hoods. But it was not felt necessary to invoke use of the sanctum sanctorum, the "hot lab," where only the deadliest organisms known to cause fast, fulminating and fatal diseases are handled...