Word: fastly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think that he has talked too early and too much, they have nothing but admiration for the way he has performed his enormous job of campaigning. But most of them watch him as they would watch a good thoroughbred galloping along the street outside the track -no matter how fast he runs, they cannot see how he can get past the judges' stand...
Then, one day in Dallas, he met Dean Gerald Gratton Moore of St. Matthews'. They became fast friends, and before he knew it, Vern Swartsfager was studying for the priesthood...
...whereabouts of sad-eyed Senator Luis Carlos Prestes, Secretary-General of Brazil's outlawed Communist Party (TIME, May 19), had been a mystery. His reappearance was real news. Diario was all ready to come out with a front-page story that he was in Pernambuco. It replated so fast that the inside pages where the first story was continued made no sense...
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 33, seemed to be going places fast. He was summoned to appear in traffic court on a charge of speeding at 52 m.p.h. in a playful race near U.N. headquarters on Long Island with wife Ethel du Pont Roosevelt (who got a summons, too). He was also appointed legal counsel for the A.F.L.'s Upholsterers International Union of North America...
...uproar. It was the league-leading Dodgers' first home game in three weeks, they led 1 to 0 and First Baseman Jackie Robinson had lined a drive to left center that looked like a sure triple. In center field, the Philadelphia Phillies' fleet Harry Walker started moving fast. As ball and outfielder converged under the floodlights, Walker pushed his spiked shoes in front of him, dropped to his rump, began to slide. At the last instant he stuck his gloved hand forward and gathered in Robinson's drive -barely off the grass. The fans gasped, then burst...