Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shrewd skipper, who made up in ingenuity what his boat lacked in speed, would order his excellent band to play loudly when a rival drew alongside. All the passengers on the other boat would rush to the near side to listen, heeling their own vessel over until its other paddle wheel flailed helplessly half out of water...
...insistent on speed and convenience, and indifferent to comfort, the boats had no place. As for scenery, modern man was now conditioned to taking it in a new form, as a thin strip that flicked past, like a long, evenly unwinding tape, on either side of a concrete highway-the kind he could see without turning his head...
When scientists send up research rockets to probe the thin upper atmosphere, they generally kiss their instruments goodbye. Few scientific gadgets survive the impact when the spent rocket hits the earth at thousands-of-miles-per-hour speed. Ordinary parachutes are no help because they are generally torn to shreds before they can waft the instruments to earth...
...breast-beating was mostly over; the incurably forward-looking editors had closed ranks and gripped hands on a determination not to commit such sinful errors again. As far as the A.P. was concerned, it had done its usual good job of reporting the state-by-state returns with speed and accuracy. But, like everybody else, it had been slow to realize that the vote was going to contradict the opinion polls. Said the New Orleans Times-Picayune's George W. Healy Jr.: "Even when Truman was leading, [A.P.] always put Dewey first, saying he was leading in ten states...
...years there he got a thorough indoctrination, as did Art Valpey and Davey Nelson, into the art of teaching the Crisler system. Butch selects his players primarily on the basis of intensity, speed, and quickness of reactions. Once he has linemen singled out he keeps after them to hit Iow, hard, and fast, but on matters of stance and position he gives his boys a free hand...