Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saving the building, which was being used as a furniture warehouse, was not really the issue. Instead, with 32 fast-food eating places already along Mass Ave between Harvard and MIT, the community was simply saying it was fed up and wanted to avoid the humiliation of living next door to those too-familiar yellow arches...
SOCIAL RESENTMENT describes those people who are extremely upset by recent trends in the U.S. The indicator was drawn from answers to questions revealing a sense that things are out of control, the country is changing too fast, ordinary people are powerless to change things, and traditional values have been supplanted by a new social morality that encourages pornography, permissiveness and handouts to undeserving people...
...fling that landed him in Tokyo's Sugamo Prison for three years while U.S. officials tried unsuccessfully to prosecute him as a war criminal. Protesting his innocence, Sasakawa hired a big brass band to blast martial songs as he strode proudly into the clink. Behind bars, he became fast friends with Kishi and other imprisoned Japanese officials who later returned to power. He also got the idea of how to increase his fortune when an American guard threw a copy of LIFE into his cell. In it, he saw an advertisement for a motorboat...
After the U.S. gave up its attempt to prosecute him, Sasakawa fast-talked the government into letting him set up a series of motorboat races on which the public could legally bet. The races proved to be a big hit and also provided more cash with which Sasakawa could pile up giri. As head of the monopoly that controls the races even today, Sasakawa dispenses 3% of ticket sales ($105 million this year) to favored causes, including charities and research into shipbuilding technology. He has been most generous, though, to Japan's martial arts societies, bragging that he commands...
...public schools, but the academies still offer a free education. Also, the academy graduate, unlike his civilian counterpart, is guaranteed a job; the services can take all the ensigns and second lieutenants the academies can provide. Then, too, the antimilitary sentiment of the Viet Nam War years is fast fading among the nation's youth. Besides, the academies offer a first-rate and increasingly broad education...