Word: fastly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of his having no dark suit spread fast. Most other Italians had only two suits themselves: one to wear to their jobs; one to putter in. "He's one of us," said a white-collar worker as Romans turned out for the Inauguration Day holiday. Added a woman in a blue apron: "He was never one to take the State's money. He saved the lira. He deserves not to pay rent for seven years...
...cigarettes (which sell for 30^ to 40^ a package) come in by the carload. Nylons lie deep on department-store shelves. The newest Parker pens are fast sellers at most stationers. In old Juarez, some storekeepers are well stocked with U.S. tinned goods carried across the international bridge from El Paso, a few pounds at a time, by "carrier rats"-troops of black-shawled old women...
...Breaks. The one thing about the A's that everybody admits is good is its young, hard-throwing pitching staff. The star is trigger-tempered Phil Marchildon, a muscleman from a Canadian lead mine, who throws a fast ball that shimmies and shakes. The box-office draw is big (6 ft. 42 in.) Lou Brissie, war hero with a game leg (TIME, May 3). Connie's other starters: baby-faced Carl Scheib, 21, solemn Joe Coleman, 25, and two others temporarily on the bench...
...Carnegie Hall, no one had to strain to hear what frantic Trumpeter Gillespie and his 15 boppers (including four other trumpets) had to say. Whatever else, bebop is screechingly loud. It is also breathlessly fast, with some biting dissonance and shifty rhythms, with the brass blaring out accents up on top. Pieces like Two Bass Hit and Stay On It didn't sound like "moldy fig" music (boppese for "decadent" Dixieland jazz); but, except for Dizzy's wild, fast-riding solos, they did sound like something Duke Ellington had thought better of a long time...
Slowdown. The clock that keeps running in Arcaro's head really rang the bell four years ago in the Manhattan Handicap. Arcaro was on Devil Diver, a speed horse. Everybody, including the other jockeys, expected him to set a fast pace, and then collapse long before the mile and a half had been run. Arcaro knew how slow he was going; the others didn't and hung back too. The time for the first mile was incredibly slow. When Arcaro finally let Devil Diver run, he outsprinted the others, winning by 1½ lengths...