Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four of the finest players amateur hockey fans have ever seen in this country--Igor Debonskii and Alexis Gury shev who each turned in the hat trick, Victor Priazhnikov who had two goals and an assist, and goalie Nicholas Puchkov--the Russians skated too fast, passed too accurately and stick-handled too well for the bewildered varsity...
...field, and the Russians have not mentioned any such item. Next degree of success would be to pass around the moon and return to earth. If the Russians were trying to do this, they did not know their own strength. When Lunik passed the moon, it was going so fast (5,500 m.p.h.) that the moon's feeble gravitation could not pull it back...
...Ready Trap." As the Japanese admiral recalls it, there was tragedy, but no buffoonery. In late 1944, he explains to Student Frazer, the imperial navy was still strong, but it had been pushed back so fast that it was badly disorganized. Just before the Leyte Gulf battle, Shima's force had wild-goose-chased after a supposedly crippled U.S. force. Shima steamed for the fringes of the vast Leyte engagement after other Japanese naval forces had set out, and the necessity for radio silence, he explains, meant that he could not coordinate his strategy or tactics with theirs. Faced...
...With the fast recovery of the economy, profits of many a corporation were snapping back faster than anybody had hoped. The upsurge was charted last week in the first batch of year-end reports...
...hard-hit railroads were steaming back fast. Chesapeake & Ohio earned $51.7 million or $6.36 a share in 1958-the fourth best net in its 122-year history. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe earned $5,139,849 in November compared to $3,659,613 a year earlier, and New York Central made $2,633,054 in November against a loss of $1,894,625 a year earlier...