Word: speedster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field of 31 horses paraded to the post at beautiful Flemington course. There were nearly 108,000 Australians on hand to watch, and most of the commonwealth's other 7,000,000-odd stopped everything-even streetcars-while they listened by radio. At the start, a lightly regarded speedster named Bruin tripped to the front in the muddy going. Bruin was still leading in the homestretch when three other horses charged up from behind...
Employing a T formation, Dudley is relying on speedster Dave Gilbert from last year's eleven and three freshman backs to baffle Dunster linemen. Defensively, the Commuters' Coach Barney Curtain has a light but fast line to work with...
Furuhashi and his teammates, barred from last year's Olympics, had not only swum away with most of the honors at the A.A.U. championship meet, they had also broken world's records right & left. Speedster Furuhashi had set most of the new marks...
...whom shrewd baseball men were touting as the player to watch in 1949 was Cleveland's 25-year-old Negro centerfielder, Larry Doby. Speedster Doby showed plenty of promise last year until, toward the end of the season, pitchers made a discovery: a dust-off ball, thrown in an early inning, could upset Doby's stance for the rest of the day. Doby began to slam fewer clothesline drives to the fences. If he could learn to handle the treatment, baseballers thought he might even be another Joe DiMaggio...
...Love. Test Pilot Yeager knew all this when he prepared to fly the Air Force's odd little Bell speedster. He took over the X-1 from a civilian test pilot, Chalmers ("Slick") Goodlin, who had flown the ominous little ship at Mach .8 (eight-tenths of the speed of sound). Goodlin was offered a fat reward (a rumored $150,000) for flying it at full speed, but he did not like the terms. Another civilian pilot had a try at the X-1 and hastily bowed out. Then the Air Force took charge and gave...