Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Naturally, the Saudis are piling up the biggest surpluses. At present prices and production levels, they will collect a staggering $150 billion over the next five years. But they will be unable to buy or build fast enough to use up even one-third of their oil money on domestic development. By 1980, they stand to have well over $100 billion in surplus?to lend, give away or invest in foreign countries...
...industries Faisal notes, for example, that his rich country badly needs industrialization. To help prepare the producers for the day, however distant, when their oil runs out, the West should also join them in developing alternative forms of en ergy and should send technology and experts to OPEC countries. Fast development is inevitable in the oil countries, and it will help work off their surpluses by spurring their imports. For their part, OPEC members may lend or invest some of the huge sums of capital that oil importers will need to develop energy supplies from the atom, from shale...
Whenever Ford set out on a run, he was pursued by an entourage of family members, friends, hangers-on and Secret Service agents-selected for their skiing skills-that strung out for hundreds of yards in his wake, as though playing follow-the-leader. "He's fast," approvingly observed one ski instructor who tagged along. "He isn't in the professional class, but he's an advanced intermediate...
Laid bare, the plot itself could close the play fast. An aging and broke London fop, Sir Harcourt Courtly, plans to marry a country miss, Grace Harkaway, for her money. But before he can get Grace to the altar, his dashing and disobedient son Charles falls in love with her. He arranges to draw off Sir Harcourt with a fresh scent, the county's hardest rider to hounds, Lady Gay Spanker. Naturally the proceedings are hampered by a covey of long-winded subplotters, plus every other known theatrical device, all of which Eyre has the gall to retain only...
...Swords sever heads. Armies mow down opposing ranks like "a line of reapers formed, who cut a swath/ in barley or wheat." Death spreads across the pages like a pool of ink-"numbing darkness," "unending night." Awesome griefs are recorded. Hair gets torn, ashes smeared. But when a mourning fast is proposed, the answer is: "So many die, so often, every day,/ when would soldiers come to an end of fasting...