Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Slow v. Fast. Predictably, the recovery has had widely varying impacts in different parts of the country. New York State and New England, handicapped by high fuel prices, wages and taxes, are emerging most slowly from the recession. California is only beginning to recover, because two of its main industries-aircraft and construction -still have almost empty order books. Aided by a demand for textiles, the Southeast is starting to revive. Atlanta's $2 billion subway building program is providing a boon. The Midwest and Southwest generally are recovering the quickest, thanks largely to their successful mix of highly...
...native Virginian, Jefferson, 33, shares with other wealthy tobacco planters a love of good food, good wine and fast horses. Unlike most of his neighbors in the Piedmont or Tidewater, however, Jefferson has been a lifelong student of natural philosophy and the arts, a man who reads easily in Greek, Latin, French and Italian, and who, when he can, still practices three hours a day on the violin...
Despite Sir William's frivolities, he has served with great bravery, earning a reputation for combat discipline, skill in training men and planning tactical military operations. Two years ago, he created a new drill for light-infantry companies and pioneered a new system whereby flexible, fast-paced companies were attached to every regiment of the line. Lord George Germain, Britain's Secretary of State for the American Colonies and a leading advocate of an aggressive policy, remarked when Howe was appointed that no other officer was so well qualified to teach European soldiers how to fight from "behind trees, walls...
...hardly a word of the Declaration could so far have appeared in the rest of the American press. Despite the development of post roads and fast packets between cities, news still takes weeks to travel from one end of the Colonies to the other. And because printing technology has advanced little since the Boston News-Letter became the first successful colonial newspaper in 1704, it still takes two men with a manual press ten hours to turn out a typical weekly run of 600 copies. Only three of the nation's 32 papers are printed more frequently than once...
...begin with, there is the obstacle of space itself. The distance from New Hampshire to Georgia is 1,300 miles-approximately the distance from London to St. Petersburg-and a message can go from Boston to London just about as fast as it can from Boston to Savannah. Few western rulers since the Roman emperors have ever been able to keep together such a vast territory for very long. The new states are separated, moreover, not only by miles but also by religion, customs, habits and temperaments. Because of such differences, some Loyalists to the Crown are already raising...