Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sands Point washroom, clowning and shouting in the Senate, posing in green pajamas, filibustering in a torrent of disconnected sentences, plodding Sam Jones was unexcitingly being chosen State Commander of the American Legion (and keeping the Legion out of politics). When Long launched his Share the Wealth Plan, fast-growing Lake Charles, with 20 oil fields in the region, was still growing, and Sam Jones had gone back to private practice. The smartest man in Louisiana, with all his bodyguards around him, was shot in the Capitol he had built; and Sam Jones's career had also taken...
This winter's smoke has been the worst so far. Prodded by the city newspapers (and by ambitions for a third term in 1941) St. Louis' stubborn Mayor Bernard F. Dickmann last December agreed that slow moves for smoke abatement had to be turned into fast moves for smoke elimination, set up a seven-man board to consider new measures...
...fine new Diesel tanker, the 10,044-ton Skandinavia, made fast to a New York dock. Built in Germany for Texas Corp. as part payment for pre-war U. S. crude oil, she had reached and crossed the blockaded Atlantic without adventure...
...fast game in which the sharpshooting of the two Yale forwards and the height of the guards and center were the decisive factors ended in a 52 to 42 victory for the Elis over the Crimson hoopsters Saturday evening in New Haven...
Although a fast-breaking offense gave the Blue a five point margin in the first four minutes, the Feslermen were still in the game. Late in the first period they rallied to tie the score at 13 all, but Yale responded with a six point burst which left the Crimson staggering...