Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year are a simple team to analyze--they are one of the top squads in the East. When Rogan is not clicking with Grieve on offense, he is handing off to Rick Diana, the classiest runner in the Ivies since Ed Marinaro. Despite defense designed to stop him, the fleet-footed Diana has managed to twist and turn for more than five yards a crack, often breaking long runs. If he gets past the initial line of opposition and squirts through to the secondary, watch out. He is devastating in the open field, and his clutch runs last year gave...
Hastings, "Haster" as they called him, was never what you'd call a guess hitter. Though not particularly fleet of foot, he was blessed with extraordinary quickness. Haster would stand in the batter's box, facing the fireballer, or screwballer, or what have you 60 feet away, and figure that whatever that pitcher could throw, he had good enough reflexes...
Hotheads in the South, which depended on that despicable institution, threatened a second insurrection, but the combined weight of the northern provinces and the British army and fleet was enough to chill even their overheated indignation. Another cooling factor may have been the British offer of financial restitution for freed slaves: a total of ?20 million, a considerable sum, I might remind you, in those days...
...they have been sharpened by the yearlong rise of the dollar and the fall of British sterling on the world's money markets. For months, Laker has been seeking extra time to repay loans he took out to buy DC 10s and European-made Airbus A300s for his fleet. Included in the debts are $160 million in direct and guaranteed loans from the Export-Import Bank, and $131 million borrowed last January from a syndicate of 14 European and North American banks. His reason for seeking the extension: to avoid having to pay an extra sum of at least...
Video equipment is much in evidence, and a helicopter-mounted, gyro-stabilized TV camera could make for a strangely deracinated war: with a fleet of these Heli-Teles swarming over the combat zone, a commander can sit behind the lines and watch the action on color television...