Word: fastly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corner of Plympton Street, two fellows in crew cuts and seersucker jackets had just thrown their weekend bags into their Ford and were starting the engine. Suddenly Vag remembered it was Friday, and he was taking the two o'clock out to the Cape. He quickened his pace. A fast lunch of chicken salad and iced coffee in Lowell House, and he would be off. Crossing Bow Street he bumped into a pretty girl, rather well-rounded at the edges. He picked up her pocketbook, handed it to her, and hesitating a moment to think of something...
Born in Manhattan, Loesser was a fast man with a rhyme when he was ten, but had to wait 17 years for his first successes. Among them: the lyrics for Hoagy Carmichael's Small Fry and Two Sleepy People. In Hollywood, he has made big money writing movie music...
...people in the stands seemed to be far more excited than Blackwell was when he shuffled out last week to start the All-Star game. Calmly, and with relaxed stance, 6 ft. 5. in. Pitcher Blackwell waited for his sign. Catcher Walker Cooper called for a fast, inside pitch. Blackwell rocked into his windup. As he let go, his long right arm snapped around as if he were cracking a snake-whip. His complicated delivery made it look as if he were about to fall down, but the ball plunked squarely into the catcher's mitt. Three pitches later...
Blackwell's fast ball is generally conceded to be slower than the 98.6 m.p.h. pitch that made Feller famous, and his curve doesn't bend so sharply. But he manages to hide the ball more expertly: it comes up at a batsman out of nowhere as "alive" as an eel and just as hard to get hold of. Besides getting extra leverage from his wide sidearm sweep, Blackwell's awkward motion keeps enemy batsmen loose at the plate-just in case one of his pitches gets out of control. The third man to face Blackwell...
...went home and lay down on his bed. He ate his meager supper silently, then went back upstairs. In the darkness of that night, when the others in the house were fast asleep, Erich climbed the ladder to the attic. In the silence and alone, he hanged himself...