Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four starts, and boosted his current season's record total to a sizzling 86 strike-outs in 33⅓ innings (an average of 2.6 strike-outs an inning). A week earlier he struck out 28 men in nine innings (the catcher couldn't handle Radcliffe's fast drop on one third strike), allowing only one hit in a 10-0 shutout...
Radcliffe, who pitches for the Robert E. Lee Institute in Thomaston, Ga., has a very fast ball, a sharp curve, and an unruffled disposition. He is also cleanup man in the batting order, and is currently hitting...
...Screen Plays' tiny poke had already shrunk to a mere $7,000. It was high time to go to the bank. Negotiations began with a bang. "Who," asked the Bank of America, "are you? And who is Henry Morgan?" After some fast talking, the bank was persuaded to lend $650,000. That left about $500,000 still to be found. Screen Plays wrote off about half of it in deferred salaries and studio overhead charges, sold a 50% interest in the picture to raise the rest (including $150,000 to be put up as additional security for the bank...
...century drew to a close, he was comparing British hegemony to the new electric light, which "only throws into deeper shadow the unlighted places." He publicly preached that the British must get out as fast as possible; and, in 1893 he retired to England, believing that he and Annette had not many years to live. Both lived until 1929, long enough to see their elder son become one of England's top social planners. Annette Beveridge was 86 when she died, nearly stone-deaf at the last and vigorously translating Turkish biography. "Perhaps the cleverest lady and the wickedest...
...progressed in organization and ability one half as fast as we had expected it would" and it is now necessary to "fall back on arms for safety," the ex-governor said...