Word: fastly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was an angry stir in the crowds. Someone yelled that a U.S. sailor had urinated on the head of Cuba's hero. A band of students, hearing the uproar, rushed over, grabbed glasses and bottles from bars, bombarded the stranded bluejackets. Only fast police work saved the sailors from lynching. Other police had their hands full breaking up mobs and rescuing wandering sailors on liberty from visiting U.S. warships...
...weeks' leave in Miami, 1st Lieut. Glenn Davis, 24, onetime fast-stepping West Point football star, sidestepped questions about his reported engagement to Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 17. Just after the warm greeting, a conscientious photographer caught Elizabeth helping Glenn wipe away the traces of lipstick...
...amid the jangle of telephones, a stagestruck, 27-year-old girl rides herd on thousands of good tickets to the best shows in town. Plump, Brooklyn-born Sylvia Siegler works 14 hours a day on her new business-the Show-of-the-Month Club, which has caught on so fast that next week it moves into a whole floor of offices...
When dark-eyed, fast-moving Violist Garry A. White, 36, took over as director of the conservatory in 1945, he knew exactly what he wanted: a conservatory to train 1960 musicians instead of the 1900 variety...
Rickey's idea was to measure, chart and then analyze every possible detail of the way his men performed. Checking the length of a player's stride, how fast he could run 60 yards, and how far he kept his toes from the plate were just preliminaries. One Rickey innovation this year was the batting tee (see cut)-designed not so much to teach hitters how to hit as to supply figures for Rickey's brain-trusters. By adjusting the tee to every position in the strike zone, they thought they could tell who was standing...