Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mikkola-men were somewhat out of their class in other events: Dan Donahue slid into the semi-finals in the 45 yard high hurdles, but was eliminated in the fast 5 7-10 finals time. Tommy Lussen of Yale only placed second with a 14 foot pole vault, a foot over Steve Madey's best. The two mile relay team was lapped by the record-breaking Manhattan College foursome...
...links of the Northeast Passage (see map). In October, most of her work done, she was sent to the rescue of two other icebreakers, the Sadko and Malygin, icebound in the floes of the Laptev. Winter set in early that year, and on Oct. 23 the Sedov was fast in the ice too. Professor Rudolph Lazarevich Samoilovich. leader of the expedition, ordered the 217 men and women aboard the three ships to settle down to a winter of scientific observation...
Coach Wally Headquist of the school-boys is bringing Jack and Bill Ryan with him tonight, the former a 4:58 quarter-miler and his brother, a 1:05 100-yard backstroker who also turns in a good 50 free-style. The Academy team boasts fast medley and free-style relay teams...
Without any question, all matters of culture and mythology aside, these ancedotes make wonderful reading. The stories are bulging with humor, the dialect is fast moving and expressive, and the tall tales are fantastic and original. It has been held by some reviewers that the Almanacs, with all their humor, have not the literary quality ascribed to them by Howard M. Jones in his foreword to the book. Although the "lyric exuberance" of these stories might be doubted, what does seem undeniably present in these anecdotes is an outstanding amount of imagination and originality in the language and the situations...
Take the description of Crockett when he "grated thunder with his teeth," or the woman who used to "brag that she war a streak of litenin set up edgeways and buttered with quicksilver," or the cold morning when "the airth had actually friz fast in her axis, and couldn't turn around; the sun had got jammed between two cakes of ice under the wheels, an' thar he had been shinin and working to get loose, till he friz fast in his cold sweat." This work is no mere potboiler...