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Word: fasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...motion by Councillor David A. Wylie, the council ordered the city solicitor to take all possible steps "to prevent the demolition of the present building and to block the construction of the fast-food restaurant...

Author: By Richard H.P. Sia, | Title: City Council Votes Against Building Of McDonald's | 3/5/1974 | See Source »

...strike, waiting in vain at the gas station, I come home and read your article about an $86 billion expenditure for defense. When will we understand that the willingness to defend our country is in direct proportion to the quality of life at home? We must attend-and fast-to rectifying our problems here, and to hell with defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 4, 1974 | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

...file a motion with Federal Judge John J. Sirica, who supervises all three of the Watergate grand juries, asking him to order that all the evidence be given to the impeachment inquiry once the grand juries have reported their indictments. If Sirica were to issue such an order, only fast White House action in a higher court could possibly prevent its execution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Pursuit of the Evidence | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

...strike and a government-ordered three-day work week, Britain goes to the polls this week to elect a new Parliament in its ninth general election since World War II. As the campaign headed into its third and final week, new issues tumbled into the headlines almost as fast as the candidates could cope with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Thinking Man's Election | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

...Very often the film is too fast and furious for its own good. Still, the scene in which everyone is grouped around the old chuck wagon enjoying a good old-fashioned bean supper is in itself a high point in the short history of screen scatology. Even more flamboyant is the ending in which the entire cast, engaged in a classic western brawl, breaks through the wall of an adjoining sound stage, where a campy musical-tails, top hats and lots of white platforms-is being shot. In the ensuing effeminate uproar, hearty Slim Pickens punches out the jodhpur-clad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hi-Ho, Mel | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

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