Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start toward retrieving at least a part of a lost position. Time, and the Russian tide, were working against the Western nations in Asia. What had to be done had to be done fast...
...could tell warming up before a game how he would do. "If you can snap off your curve so it breads like a ball rolling off a table, then you're strong," he says. The great fireballer had long ago ceased to rely solely on his fast one in a clutch. He had taken a salary cut (from last year's $87,000), because he finished 1948 with only 19 victories. "The way the wolves howled, you might think that was bad," he says, defensively, "and they're howling harder this year. The crapehangers love to bury...
...shares soared as fast as those of Free State Gold Areas, Ltd., the company which owned options on the 4,200-acre Erfdeel farm. From 13s.6d. ($2.72) the shares rose to a top of 36s. ($7.25), giving whopping paper profits to Free State Gold Areas' principal owner, Joseph Milne...
Before you could repeat that mouthful of title, the group was nicknamed "The Harvard Annex," and the name has stuck fast for 70 years. During that span, Radcliffe has had three presidents, a dozen-odd deans, and a faculty made up either wholly or mostly of Harvard instructors...
Harvard never got started. It was blanked by Bob Goodyear, hardly the equal of Frank Quinn, whom Godin bested last June. Goodyear scattered seven singles; he was not exceptionally fast but he mixed up his pitches well and he had a nice crossfire...