Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hubbard said Jewett did not finish because he got going too fast and "flew off the course...
Coach George Crowe feels his squad is playing "progressively better," after a fast start and a disappointing mid-season slump...
...fast start too for the Russian fans, who turned out in strength at every event with red flags and bushy fur hats. Their ace speed skater Tatiana Averina won a gold in the 1,000-meter race to go along with two bronze medals in the 500 and 1,500. Galina Stepanskaya, 27, a last-minute addition to the Soviet speed skating team, took the 1,500-meter race. The favored figure-skating duo, Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev, though performing slightly off their usually impeccable form, easily won the gold medal. Also, the juggernaut Russian hockey team beat...
...that the jobless rate dropped from 8.3% in December to 7.8% in January. That was the steepest monthly decline in more than 16 years, and especially welcome because the fact that the unemployment rate had stuck at 8.3% for two months had stirred worry that recovery was not progressing fast enough...
Then Wertmuller sits down at the typewriter and, she says, "writes so fast -rrrrrrr-that I sound like Gene Krupa." According to Giannini, the scripts that result have the heft of a telephone book. And there are two of them...