Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when he came up to the light and air. Then in 1895 he tried semipro baseball. Big League managers who looked him over were scared off by his clumsy walking gait. Only Ed Barrow, who later built up the New York Yankees, stuck around to watch popeyed as the fleet-footed Wagner covered ground in tremendous toadlike leaps, smothered the ball in his huge hands. Barrow wasted no time signing the youngster to play for his Paterson, N.J. team...
...British." On the transport side, Britain has spent upwards of $70 million on a lost fleet since 1941. At first, planemakers laid their plans around huge flying boats ideal for empire routes, where long runways and well-equipped airfields were few and far between, ordered four models, including a gigantic, ten-engined Saunders-Roe Princess flying boat at a cost of some $22 million. As it turned out, big airfields were built in virtually every corner of the world during World War II, thus making Great Britain's flying boats obsolete...
University of Rome, Blanc hit upon the Torre site by accident. In the grass at the bottom of a hill 13 miles northwest of the Colosseum, he picked up a curious object that turned out to be the fossilized tooth of a prehistoric elephant. Professor Blanc borrowed a fleet of bulldozers and scraped until, 138 feet down, he exposed the remains of a primitive campsite strewn with hand axes and stone flakes. Many of the bones of the deer, elephants and horses that lay alongside had been cracked open by the hand-ax wielders, apparently in their search...
Junior Ben Heckscher is Barnaby's star. As number one man last year he lost only two matches. This season he could easily win them all. The fleet six-footer has smashing shots from anywhere in the court, and his hard service and sharp corner shots are deadly. Barnaby calls him "one of the fastest moving players in the game...
...About a month ago, police apprehended a fugitive by shooting him in the leg. "This guy's set to walk," they told doctors, who promptly hustled him off to bed. Sometime later, the prisoner, who indeed was "set" to walk, eluded his guard and lept from a hospital window. Fleet-footed policemen pursued him and within a block's distance managed to score again--this time a direct hit in the other leg. Stuart Cope, Adams House junior, made the admittance report for the second time, and according to one account, police insisted the itinerant patient be chained...