Word: fastedness
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I urge the committee to reconsider the manner in which these meatless days are to be instituted. Judging from the response to the Thanksgiving-time fast, which was hardly unanimous, I can not be convinced that meatless days will be so anxiously awaited. During that fast, many persons who had...
The turtles, who actually come from the dry foothills of the Atlas Mountains, found the lettuce strange and exotic to their taste. A number of them became sick from overeating. Some of the healthier turtles managed to escape out into the streets of Dunkirk. Special barriers had to be built...
Late last week, the separatists announced that if statehood was not granted by Feb. 5 they would take unspecified "revolutionary measures." Undoubtedly mindful that Andhra was originally created in 1953 after a follower of Mohandas Gandhi fasted until he died to plead for statehood, a separatist leader, Subba Reddy, declared...
Tenuous as it may prove to be, however, the truce represented a breakthrough for Whitelaw (see box) and a handsome return on his determined policy of conciliation. Whitelaw released more than half of the Catholics who had been interned without trial by Faulkner's government. Last week he took...
Trintignant uses several devices for cultivating the "inner life" that is the key to his characterizations. To bring out his bad side, he plays poker-"an evil game. If you want to win you have to be vicious." To heighten his perception, he has delved into drugs, fasted and conducted...