Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baby Sitter. With cops ratting on each other so fast, it was hard for an honest hood to decide which law to work with. A grand jury went to work. Mickey knew things were out of hand when State Attorney General Fred Howser sent a special agent to be his bodyguard...
Things began to relax as soon as Pax was suspended last year. By last week the fast-paced barbotte, Montreal's pet dice game, was rattling away all over town, and bookies were easy to find. Montreal's fabulous oldtime bordellos (evening dress only) were long gone, but there were plenty of girls operating from tourist homes and rooming houses...
Kids should work to learn, Schwertz argued, not to get A's or B's. So he did away with the old system of report cards. Then he abolished automatic annual promotions. His pupils, he declared, would advance as fast or as slowly as they were able. In the fall, each child would start off each subject where he had ended it the year before, regardless of what his classmates were doing...
After deliberately letting Kid Gavilan set a fast pace for five rounds, Robinson opened his bag of tricks. He set traps and sprung them with a master's touch (e.g., following three left jabs with a left hook instead of an orthodox right). By the 10th round, ringsiders had the feeling that they were watching a precision machine. In the 14th round, Sugar Ray was in such confident command that he stuck out his tongue at Joe Louis, who had picked Gavilan...
...Editor & Publisher, a secondhand dealer last week advertised: "GOING FAST! Machinery, Equipment & Supplies of the Philadelphia Record . . ." It was in February 1947, during a Newspaper Guild strike, that Publisher J. David Stern abruptly sold his Record, two Camden (N.J.) newspapers and a radio station for $12 million to the rival Philadelphia Bulletin. Pot-bellied Publisher Stern retired to a Manhattan penthouse to chain-smoke Optimo Dunbar cigars and dictate his memoirs. But son David III ("Tommy"), now 39, itched to get back in the business, ranged far & wide seeking a good buy. He found it in New Orleans...