Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They are all talking about the same place--the Public Affairs Library at the Kennedy School of Government. The proposed naming of the library after Charles W. Engelhard, who built a financial empire through his investments in South Africa, touched off a controversy that administrators wanted to die fast. Protests and meetings with both undergraduates and K-School students kept the issue alive, however. When the end finally came, all the issues dovetailed like the plot of a fairytale; rarely in the real world do controversies have a happy ending...
Baker was a fast, accurate reporter, and when someone complimented him on a story he would say, "Aw, shucks," and shrug it off. When he did time on the rewrite desk, police reporters all tried to phone in their stories to him because he could turn two purse snatchings and a dog bite into a tone poem. By the time he was 27 in 1952, he took over as the Sun bureau chief in London...
They must be able to work fast and pull all-nighters in hotel rooms. A good one knows how to eliminate a character, take out a scene, adjust a set. Says Stein: "You need a sixth sense, a feeling for where the show dips." The doctor's bill partly depends upon his success in salvaging the show. There is usually a flat fee, ranging from about $10,000 to $30,000 for five or six weeks' work, and often a percentage of the show's revenues...
...crease in front of Ranger Goaltender John Davidson to draw defenders away from Canadien forwards. He forced openings in the Ranger defense that his teammates exploited with a display of skating, that left Shero awed: "I don't think I've ever seen a team that fast in my life. Not even the Russians skate that fast. There was nothing we could do to match...
...Middle West with the legendary qualities of Sholom Aleichem's villagers. Elkin makes much joyful noise unto the Lord, but there is also banter to deflect the wrath, and complaining because it might do some good. There are no booming Faustian bargains in his work; just fast, uneasy verbal agreements between small businessmen and their omnipotent Wholesale Supplier...