Word: flashiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the moment the 17-year-old New York schoolgirl glided out to defend her world's figure-skating title last week, any splay-ankled tyro could plainly see that pert Carol Heiss was a solid bet to keep the championship in the U.S. In addition, the flashiest male who showed up for the meet at the posh Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs was another American. Dave Jenkins, 20, the acrobatic kid brother of Hayes Alan Jenkins, now turned pro, who had won the title four years running...
...himself as a novelist. But he knew all the tricks of the trade, and in his hands the historical was surefire. His plots are as tight and well woven as good wicker. The costumes fit, love and virtue always triumph, and the swordplay is the most expert, the flashiest since The Three Musketeers...
...Little (no Ibs.) Willie Hartack, the year's leading jockey, turned in one of the season's flashiest performances on Maryland's Laurel race track. In an eight-race program, Willie booted home six winners, including Rhy Dress, which galloped home second in the $12,816 Maryland Futurity but was awarded first on a foul...
Plus a Waterfall. Last week, when the story of his latest and flashiest fringe benefit broke, Beck bellowed like a bull caught in the barn door. "I had nothing to do with the purchase," he said. "When they wanted to give me a home, I wanted nothing less than what I was living in already. They said, 'Go ahead and buy it. We don't care what it costs...
...best varsity swimmers in the country and what may prove to be a top freshman team, compete in the I.A.B. pool tonight with the Crimson's flashiest competition in Cambridge: Dartmouth. The varsity meet starts at 8:30 p.m.; the freshmen precede...