Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friend and fellow novelist, called him "the great rememberer." But when we remember Jack Kerouac only 11 years after his alcoholic death, we too often remember the man and his fabulous stories, rather than his genius. Jack Kerouac was that kind of writer. His writing was so full of speed, his characters so powerful, his ideas so outrageous for the times that his fame is mostly owed to the characters and events he portrayed, not to the way he portrayed them...
Placing someone with paranormal powers among ordinary people is a classic conceit used by many television shows, including Bewitched, My Favorite Martian and I Dream of Jeannie. But Williams' pastiche of mime, light-speed improvisation and complex clowning is giving that one-joke vehicle a new velocity. Delivered with his engagingly boyish grin and calculated inflections, such gibberish as "nano, nano" (meaning hello) and "nimnul" (meaning jerk) can send audiences?and producers?into paroxysms of delight: last week the show shot up to seventh place in the Nielsens. "This guy is going to be a superstar with or without this...
...industrialist and aircraft designer whose single-engine fighter plane dominated Luftwaffe squadrons during World War II; after surgery; in Munich. Awarded a glider pilot's license at the age of 15, Messerschmitt first gained fame building light sports planes. The young, soft-spoken engineer specialized in increasing aircraft speed and soon received military assignments. During the war, German factories filled European and African skies with 40,000 of his ME-109 fighters and ME-110 twin-engine bombers, aircraft so effective that Allied pilots who displayed bad nerves were said to have "the Messerschmitt twitch." In 1941 he developed...
...Crimson started a front line of Alberto Villar, Lee Nelson, Steve Yakopec, and Mauro Keller Sarmiento. They utilized the slippery speed of wings Villar and the Argentinian freshman to expose holes in a sagging Lion defense but Yakopec and Nelson, who was marked all game, were unable to convert...
...knew I would be in it, but I didn't expect to be setting the pace through the first half of the race," Meyer said. "It was a real strange feeling; I didn't know if I was going the right speed...