Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could it not be true? Only when he is in the ring do those days come back. Then his brows blacken in a manner unbecoming to the hero of a sentimental cinema; his body, muscled like a panther cat's, seems to ignite with malice, to burn and flash; then his fists reach out, savagely, lethally, to destroy the weaving shape in front of him and get revenge for something he has just remembered, a wrong done, a score that must be evened, something that happened to him long...
After the first set Mrs. Mallory could still produce the flash of her square, sudden smile; after the second set she looked suddenly darker; she played the third set with dogged courage, the perspiration running down into her eyes. Helen Wills was as pale at the end of the match as she had been at the beginning. Let the people in the stands behave like maniacs. What did she care? At 17, very quietly, she had won the woman's championship of the U. S. She had now reached full growth - 142 pounds, 5 ft. 7. It was time...
...minute 56 7-10 seconds just ahead of the fast coming Sober of City College of New York, and Boyden, Golden Bear half miler. In the second race, the Tech leader, Leness, won in slightly better time over McCloskey of Boston College and Richardson of Stanford. The Cardinal flash who is expected to fight it cut with Watters for the supremacy this afternoon saved himself and finished third without difficulty. In the third trial Martin, Green half miler, was out in front all the way and crossed the line with a large lead over Swinburne of Georgetown and Campbell...
...thriller in the quarter mile series came when Paulsen, Yale star, who was nosed out by Kane last Saturday, romped home ahead of a fast field in the third heat to win in 48 8-10 seconds. The Blue flash came to the fore in the last 25 yards and was pushed all the way to the tape by Cooke of Syracuse and Burgess of Georgetown. Miller of Stanford won the second heat and Ascher, veteran Georgetown runner showed the way in the final brush...
...know what impelled me to do the stickup. . . . When I entered the restaurant the thought came over me like a flash and I acted. ... I don't drink or smoke...