Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About the question with which your Feb. 4 Zen article ended:* I would bat my eyelids three times fast, three slow, and three times fast-the international distress signal (SOS). Then, when the friend had pulled me up, I would let him feel the back of my hand...
Pilots' Admiral. In dark December 1941 the Navy picked Captain Radford to centralize and expand the Navy's flight training program. After a fast survey Radford announced that the Navy could up its training program from 300 pilots a year to 25,000-and proceeded during the next 16 months to push through just such an expansion. Few were surprised when the Navy promoted him to rear admiral and sent him out to command one of the newly forming carrier attack groups in the Pacific -even though Radford had never commanded a ship...
...crisp, dialogue-filled pages. Author Gill has drawn a recognizable portrait of a fast-talking, flip and money-hungry operator, but when he reaches for a deeper meaning in Charlie's woes, he reaches into emptiness. As a novel or play, the book must stand in the shadow of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, since both take the rigid form of a one-day revelation of a family's sins and strength. But here is no passionate view of the tragedy of life: easy optimism and shallow hope bubble...
...Perkins drew a $29.50 fine for drunkenness after he piloted his 1950 Ford onto the Cloverleaf Airport runway, roared up and down at 70 m.p.h. for an hour, complained to a sheriff's deputy who finally cornered him that the car would not take off-"no matter how fast I taxied...
After two minutes, Harrington and Tiger Carl Belz scored twice each to make it 38 to 34, but then Princeton fell apart. Fast breaks and cool foul shooting paid off for the Crimson as the home team ran its lead to 57 to 38 after nine minutes, and from there on the win was assured. The home team was controlling both backboards, as only Fulcomer continued to jump for the losers, and Cappon threw in his substitutes after ten minutes...