Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week he was doing just that in New Hampshire, and he alone has vowed to enter every one of the 30 or more primaries next year. He has raised an impressive $600,000 so far and is spending it about as fast as he gets...
...Bangladesh is, quite literally, a nation that no one knows. You can't even find out how many people live there: estimates run from seventy million to eighty five. Likewise, no one knows how fast the population is expanding: some will tell you three million a year, others will say less than two. This discrepancy is more than academic debate over statistics; each one of these chalkmarks in the census book represents a person who needs food, a home, clothes, medicine, schooling, work. If you're off by fifteen million and a human margin of error is increasing...
...more glorious past, into a time when the Flora twins were still nothing more than one-half of the landscape, when the immigration laws imposed a quota upon the number of Irishmen allowed enter Providence, and a time when Lions and Quakers weren't able to run quite as fast as they...
...taken lightly. Several journalists, both print and broadcast, worried especially about the impact of television. Charles Seib, press ombudsman at the Washington Post, is offended by televised "instant replay" of President Ford's brush with death outside the St. Francis Hotel. "They played it slow, they played it fast, they paused," he complains. "You've seen that film a dozen times now." A number of newsmen are irked that Lynette Fromme's troubles with her .45-cal. automatic pistol received such instructively graphic attention that any future .45-cal. assassin would never make the same mistake...
...unfair, I can see how having to travel from Hilles to William James in under seven minutes would require some fast moving, but at the same time, residents of Radcliffe are expected to do this daily. And this kind of travelling is fine if you have two hours between classes for lunch, but for those living at Radcliffe who have what amounts to fifty minutes for lunch, the bias against them is phenomenal, as it is becoming increasingly hard to find a Harvard House in which to eat lunch. Eliot, Adams, and Lowell have been closed to unaccompanied non-residents...