Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clump, giving one mutual twitter with all the naturalness of a concerted burp. There are fewer transition problems in the second act, probably because there are fewer transitions. Once the background has been rather slowly introduced in the first act, the denouement melodically takes place at zany, breakneck speed. Even so, the second act, as a whole, is much better than the first...
...patrol regulations, and passed with the second highest score. This qualified him for the skiing test: Jim had to demonstrate every technique of skiing, from stem christie to parallel to snowplow on a very steep slope, and ski every kind of snow--packed, powder, ice and crud--at high speed. He passed the skiing test with a low score, but not too low. Of the 65 people to tried to join, Jim's total score placed...
...shaddup. You should go read Jimmy Breslin's book, How The Good Guys Finally Won--that's about your speed, real light and entertaining and not too long--only take you a couple of days...
...fighter pilot's airplane," says Air Force Colonel James Rider, chief of the F-16 test program. At $8 million the F-16 is half as expensive as the big F-15 and much more maneuverable. Although the plane does not have the F-15's speed or payload, it can outmaneuver any other plane in the sky. Among other advances, it has computer-controlled wings that automatically change shape during tight, fast moves, allowing a pilot to shake off a pursuing plane and most missiles in wrenching operations, like 360° revolving turns. Fortunately, F-16s have...
Even when performed amid the Naugahyde and flash of Las Vegas, sport can serve a kind of liturgical function. It becomes a parable: those few athletes who are gifted with a certain magic become proof of the splendors that the body can achieve-the feats of grace, strength, speed, skill, stamina. But the athlete's half-life is so short; his decline and failure become a model of the mortality in everyone...