Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another hooker explains that each time she's thrown in the can she emerges poorer than before, and she has a son to support. "I don't even have the money to try and find a job. So when I get out, I have to turn a trick as fast as possible...
...trouble is first recorded by sensitive, computerized instruments in the control room of the nuclear power plant. They warn that temperatures inside the reactor are rising fast toward a danger point - so fast that only one explanation is possible: somehow, the main pipes carrying water to the reactor core have broken or clogged. As white-coated technicians look on helplessly, the back-up water system also fails. Deprived of the coolant that controls its temperature, the reactor begins melting in its own heat. Then the machine and its fuel collapse into a molten mass that explosively converts the coolant water...
Expensive Breeder The next generation of atomic reactors, now being developed in a demonstration project by a Government-industry consortium, is called the "fast breeder." Astonishingly efficient (it uses 60% to 70% of the energy in its fuel v. 1% to 2% in today's nukes), and almost alchemic (it actually creates more fuel than it consumes), it would extend nuclear fuel supplies for centuries. But critics are attempting to stop the breeder, arguing that it not only creates hard-to-handle plutonium but also is siphoning enormous amounts of research and development money...
...huge men, the front four have exceptional speed. With hands the size of bear paws and thighs the thickness of a railroad tie, Joe Greene measures 6 ft. 4 in. and weighs 275 lbs. Even so, he drives through the 40-yd. dash in less than five seconds, as fast as many running backs. Dwight White (6 ft. 4 in., 255 lbs.) and Greenwood (6 ft. 6 in., 230 lbs.) are faster, and Holmes (6 ft. 3 in., 260 lbs.) is only a minisecond slower...
...reporters, "I am the epitome of masculinity." But just beneath the engaging extravert there is a hair-trigger temper and barely repressed violence. "There are circumstances," he says, "when I can get so angry and pissed-off that I'll do damage if I don't cool down fast...