Word: split-second
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...plays the game because he likes it;† he plays superlatively well because, starting with a good share of natural ability, he also has a burning zeal to excel, which has made him a meticulous attender to details. At practice, he wants to know the reason for every split-second step in every play; once he is convinced, he practices until he has it, muscle-perfect...
Throughout the week, Bill rode in the front seat of the royal limousine to make sure that his split-second timing worked. The first day he slid in beside the chauffeur there was no comment from the back seat. By the second morning, the Princess apparently had done some checking, piped up with a cheery "Good morning, Huskey." The third day, it was "Good morning, Bill." But Bill Huskey's greatest satisfaction was the wide-eyed amazement of the visiting Mounties and Scotland Yard at the thoroughness of his arrangements. Says Bill: "The Scotland-Yard guy and the Mounties...
...earth technical tricks to compliment the depth of emotion in the acting on the screen. It is to his credit that none of these tricks is ever obtrusive. He uses really close close-ups, and is not afraid to hold the camera on his subject for more than a split-second; he uses light and shadow to reveal or conceal, as he wishes; and he seems to have spent a good deal of time on the sound effects for the film. They are no more than the wail of a distant siren, or the call of a loon...
...force of their own for the first time. Pilots and crews of the Eighteenth will train and work hand in glove with the Sand Airborne Division at nearby Fort Bragg, N.C. on the highly complex problems of airloading men and equipment and dropping them on a pinpoint target on split-second schedules...
...Four times, square-jawed Goalie Sawchuk coolly turned aside solo sweeps by Black Hawk attackers who were rifling the puck in toward the net at an 80-m.p.h. clip. Six times more, in wild gang melees in front of Detroit's cage, Sawchuk's quick eye and split-second reactions safely smothered the puck...