Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Speed Freaks...
...more. Pompan and Andy Chaikovsky dropped their first set to Virginia's number three singles player Cameron Corse and his partner, Stone, but then roared back to crush the Cavalier pair 6-2, 6-4 in the last two sets. Chaikovsky, playing despite a shoulder injury and serving half-speed to avoid aggravating the injury, said afterwards the shoulder had not bothered him too much. The injury may, however, continue to keep him out of singles competition during the team's trip to California this spring...
Fleet of knee as an infant, Nehemiah was nicknamed "Skeets" by his father before he could walk. He grew into a splendid all-around athlete, but he seemed born to hurdle. He has the ideal build (6 ft. 1 in., 170 Ibs.), a sprinter's speed, exquisite balance and lightning reflexes. "But the mental aspect is what sets him above the rest," says Frank Costello, the Maryland track coach. "He has unbelievable maturity for his age. He's the ultimate competitor, and that's something you can't teach...
With both teams skating four a side, Elice-idol Paul Castraberti notched the game-winner at 13:21 of the third. The sophomore rink dragster used his speed to create a breakaway for himself at the Harvard blue line, then beat Harvard goalie Giff Duffy with a wrist-shot from the right circle...
...dramatist correctly analyzes himself as "not a speed reader but a speed understander, and a natural-born explainer." He is also a natural-born worker. He never has fewer than three projects going simultaneously, sits down seven days a week at a cluttered desk in his Manhattan apartment and writes at least eight hours a day, banging out manuscripts at a phenomenal 90 words a minute. Unconcerned with literary style, Asimov concentrates instead on clarity. The result is a manuscript that can usually be taken from the typewriter to the typesetter. His publishers, who know a good thing when they...