Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Listen, just because Yale couldn't beat us if we were a rug and they had a stick is no reason whatsoever to let down. Seems to me that the day and the meet are just right for running fast and jumping high...Let's kick this small dog, in a gentlemanly fashion, dead in the behind...
...Cultural Revolution-gains that are now threatened by the rehabilitation of Chou's old guard. Says one U.S. analyst: "There were a lot of young people with lousy educations who were promoted despite their lack of ability. These so-called helicopter promotions-those who rose straight upward fast-are trying to stay at high altitude...
...became a diver and spent a decade combing the seabed off California for abalone. Today, at 39, Handelman is again topside: this time as president of Oceaneering International, Inc., a Houston-based company that in 6½ years has become the largest publicly owned firm in an arcane but fast-growing specialty known as underseas services...
...television's dramatic (last week erroneously dramatic) election-night projections, since what it provides is nothing but actual votes. The cooperative was born in the '60s out of television's pressure for late-night vote counts that, network executives felt, the wire services were not collecting fast enough. In 1964 the networks badly botched primary coverage. In a tight Goldwater-Rockefeller race in California, network forecasters, relying on competitively reported returns from the state's 31,000 polling places, ringingly declared both Goldwater and Rockefeller the winner-depending on which channel one was watching...
...places in the narrative where W&B are strongest, where their style best fits the content. That style, not surprisingly, is newspaper style: short sentences, short paragraphs, plenty of facts, active verbs. In these sections, W&B are invincible--you find yourself damaging the pages from turning them so fast...