Word: instants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caddy, are such cutups from tee-off to hole-down that they are driven off the golf courses of the nation and into show business. In transit, Jerry does a memorable song & dance routine, playing an international-set sissy, and manages not to offend because he never for an instant loses the idiotic innocence of a small boy showing the gang what his big sister does in front of the mirror...
...Abdallah sat until the Sultan, shaded by a parasol and fanned by a long-handled fly sweeper, drew near. Ben Abdallah revved up the motor, threw the old roadster into gear and roared at 40 m.p.h. straight at the mounted Sultan. For a startled instant, the Sultan watched the oncoming car, then began to dismount. A tough professional soldier, Calais-born Robert King, who is physical training instructor of the Sultan's guards, leaped on the running board of the Ford, grabbed ben Abdallah by the neck and wrestled him from the car. Ben Abdallah pulled a butcher knife...
...dragged himself to the range. At noon, he still held a thin lead over Armyman Benner. While the others ate lunch, Harry Reeves flopped in his hut. Shuttling between his cot and the range all through the sweltering afternoon, Reeves was a shaky, sweaty wreck. But in each critical instant of firing, he aimed surely, squeezed the trigger steadily, guided his bullets by instinct, if not by sight. His 2,606 points beat Benner, who slipped to 2,595-a level only a handful of pistol-men can ever hope to attain. Harry Reeves's two daughters rushed...
...hours of March 28, at an isolated spot near Steenwijk, the Germans signaled in a twin-engine bomber on a triangle of lights. Silhouetted against the moonlight, the bomber swept down to 600 feet, as the Germans wondered if the important drop would turn out to be bombs. An instant later, five "gigantic black shadows" parachuted down-four containers of material, and an agent. The British had seemingly forgotten their own verification checks, and handed over the key to their Dutch communications...
...half an inch above the world record. Twice he rushed the bar with seven-league strides, then floated his 210 Ibs. upward with unbelievable buoyancy. But each time the bar quivered, then fell. On his third and last try, Davis sailed over. The bar quivered, stayed put. For an instant he sprawled in the pit, then bounded back to his feet and flung sawdust for joy. The crowd pressed in while the bar height was rechecked. It was actually 6 ft. 11 ⅝ if in., but, because the A.A.U. does not reckon with eighths of inches, the new mark...