Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other fingers of the Allied hand probed directly toward Mandalay. The British resumed their two-year-old drive on Akyab through Arakan, made faster progress. The stagnation in Burma was ended...
...away the outstanding performer of the week was lithe, 6-ft. 3½-in. Arnold Ferrin, lone regular left from Utah's 1944 National Collegiate Championship team. Faster, more graceful than ever (see cut), he put on a one-man show that just missed upsetting St. John's, strongest of the metropolitan New York teams...
...from fast & furious to breathless & breakneck. To meet spectators' demand for action, the coaches (who now rate basketmaking 4-to-1 over defensive play) have had to develop a pack of new tricks as well as refine the old standbys. As a result, the game is not only faster but a whole lot more complicated than it was a few years...
Thought from Orthodoxy. A paddler said: "D'yer think hell will be as hot as this?" The sergeant snarled: "You'll be afindin' out mighty quick if you don't get a move on." We paddled a little faster and crouched a little lower-and I wished I'd left my sheepskin coat behind, for the heat from the flamethrowers and the burning banks and the patches of burning water were making me uncomfortable...
...lavish spender, Rose is also a tough bargainer. "Only a sucker," he once remarked of picture-buying, "pays the price asked." Accused of being "slow with a buck," Rose retorted: "Sure, but do you know anybody who is faster with a hundred thousand...