Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...satellite will not be tracked by radio alone. Optical observations are needed to chart the orbit accurately, and the satellite moves so fast that the big, slow-moving telescopes of professional astronomers have little chance of holding it for long. So teams of amateur astronomers, organized into "Operation Moonwatch," will spot the satellite with widefield, low-power, low-cost telescopes...
...bases suddenly got full of scampering Dodgers and none were out. But the youngster forced Old Pro Elmer Valo, 36, to bounce back to the box, calmly threw home to start a run-nipping double play, and then got Outfielder Gino Cimoli to ground out on an inside fast ball to end the inning. When he finished his two-hit victory last week (final score: 2-0), the Oklahoma kid was the talk of the National League and the upstart St. Louis Cardinals were in first place in the wildest early-season pennant scramble in years...
...until young Von was through whistling his fast one past the Dodgers did another Cardinal pitcher stop squirming on the bench. "Boy,'' gasped Von's big brother, Lyndall McDaniel, 21, "I never sweat like that when I'm pitching. Those were two long hours...
...mist had slicked the 8,366-mile road course and added to the possibilities of bloodshed, but in the end there were only a few crashes and minor injuries, and the high speeds killed only the chances of the favored Italian entries. The sleek, swift Ferraris and Maseratis were fast enough to set records all week long in practice runs, but they were not sturdy enough to run so fast so long. In the race itself, the Italians screeched in and out of the pits, getting their cars patched up like overage family jalopies, while five D-type Jaguars sped...
...varsity crew had a hard time getting any real run on its boat. Then Stroke Phil Gravink pushed the beat to 32 and the Big Red shell began to skip across wind-chopped Lake Onondaga. Cornell crossed the finish line 12 lengths ahead of Penn. pulling away so fast that its third successive I.R.A. triumph looked deceptively easy...