Word: split-second
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Rutgers finished second, one seat ahead of Radcliffe; Yale J.V. heavies def. Radcliffe J.V. by 5 seconds; Radcliffe freshman heavies def. Yale freshman by split-second margin...
...eyelids forced their way shut, and I dreamed that a giant copy of a history course syllabus was sailing down the road behind me, trailing our Pontiac. I awoke some three inches from a guard rail. Namo drove for a while after that, but he, too, insisted on taking split-second naps at the wheel. I still cannot remember how we got to Fort Lauderdale alive, but my next memory after the giant syllabus and an uncomfortably close look at some palm trees is that of Namo and I waking up on the beach in our shorts, two pale WASPish...
...another fact: electrical energy cannot economically be stored. Even a relatively small variation in load in one part of the system must be quickly compensated for elsewhere along the line. Indeed, the decisions of controllers to buy or sell electricity, or to switch in additional generators, require such split-second timing and are so complex that large utilities like Con Ed have increasingly computerized their operations...
...prosecution and build their own defense cases from pre-trial procedure to courtroom maneuvers. This year he is focusing on defenses for the criminally insane. Says Amsterdam: "Law students can learn more from knowing how to ask good questions than from studying appellate briefs. To be able to make split-second decisions, they have to feel the law in their bones...
...kiss," often performed by two women who dislike each other, who wear makeup they don't want smeared and who both resemble Bette Davis in her middle years. They approach, incline the planes of their cheeks. Three to four inches from contact, they close their eyes in a split-second transport of fraudulent bliss, and smack their lips minutely upon nothing, as if releasing little butterflies. A somewhat rarer treat: the "hair tangle," which requires a tall, long-haired woman and a shorter man; woman inclines head to offer cheek, man goes to peck cheek, woman's hair...