Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after a Mediterranean tour with the fleet qualified as a test pilot, flew high-altitude research missions, helped develop the Navy's in-flight refueling system and carrier landings of the F2H-3 Banshee. With 3,600 flight hours (1,700 in jets), he was tapped as a fast-rising comer, sent to the Naval War College ('58), then got the key job of aircraft readiness officer for the Atlantic Fleet. Says his wife Louise: "He is always reading technical manuals and the big policy-type journals, the kind the admirals and generals say should be read...
...find that it will remain placed where he put it. He will find comfort in stretching his arm to one side and leaving it there. Soon after entry into the gravity-free state, his vision will return. His respiration will become steady and slow. His heart will still run fast from the excitement, but he will not be uncomfortable, not even afraid. He may wonder if this uncontrollable thing may suddenly and prematurely rush him back to earth again...
...while Big Pasquale was peeling his morning orange in the marketplace, he was accosted by a little man called "The Ship" because of his rolling gait. Within minutes, Big Pasquale was reaching for his pistol, but The Ship was too fast for him. True to the Camorra code. Big Pasquale told the police nothing, and everyone around-the shoeshine boy, the boy's customer, even the woman who sold the oranges-had sudden lapses of memory. But before he died in the hospital, Big Pasquale told Little Doll what had happened: Tony Esposito had sent The Ship around...
...College Education. Each day grief-stricken Little Doll placed fresh flowers on Big Pasquale's grave. But she had not come from a family called "Little Streaks of Lightning" (because they could fire a pistol so fast) for nothing. That day in the marketplace. Little Doll took her revenge on Tony Esposito with Big Pasquale's own big pistol. Awaiting trial in jail, she bore Big Pasquale's baby and cheerfully wrote her parents: "Think of me as a girl away at college. Sometimes I laugh and I sing...
...principle, handball dates from the first time that a boy bounced a ball against a wall. Most authorities credit Irish immigrants of the 1840s with introducing the formal game to the U.S., where it found an early fan in Abraham Lincoln. In the modern, furiously fast sport, the ball can be hit with either hand (hand-ballers consider rackets sissy stuff). The most difficult shot is a "fly kill." in which the player takes the ball in the air off the front wall, hits it against a side wall at a sharp angle so that it has lost nearly...