Word: split-second
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Britain used her big fellows-Stirlings, Halifaxes, Manchester. They pulled over Cologne with split-second precision, while lighter bombers-Beauforts, Bostons, Hampdens-engaged German fighters or whirled low over the targets, sowing incendiaries. When the big bombs began to land, the heart of Cologne burst into flame. Shattered buildings tumbled, great craters were torn in the ground. All this airmen saw from aloft, where the light of Cologne's fires was soon bright enough to illuminate the blacked-out attackers...
More than any flying man in World War II, 49-year-old Claire Chennault, leathery student of the split-second formation attack, has proved that fighting quality can triumph over numerical odds and superior equipment in the hands of the enemy. The proof is provided by the hottest, most destructive, most deadly accurate air-fighting outfit in the world: China's American Volunteer Group...
...expert skier, and skiing is one of the few sports at which women become expert. Discouraged from jumping (too dangerous) and cross-country running (too tiring), women have adopted the most becoming ski sport: downhill racing. Even so, whooshing down a mountainside at 40 m.p.h. requires steel nerves, stamina, split-second thinking. Not by seconds but by fractions of seconds are races often won & lost...
...rush to the Harvard bandwagon has been terrific. Last Saturday caused more split-second somersaults than have been seen since last June when Hitler walked into Russia. The number one example of this is David Francis Egan '23, whose acid comments about the state of Harvard football during the era of Gladchuck and O'Rourke, were not meant for publication in the Alumni Bulletin. Following the Dartmouth victory Egan started his flip-flop, and after the Navy deadlock he reached down into his asbestos-lined dictionary to pull out words and phrases not used since B.C.'s adventures with Georgetown...
...could jump 157 ft. on sea legs. He lacked the elegant style of Olympic Champion Birger Ruud and Norwegian Champion Reidar Andersen, two of his countrymen who had broken the trail ahead of him. But Torger Tokle had something. Experts say it is the oomph in his satz, that split-second transition from running to jumping at the takeoff. From knees like coiled springs he gets a tremendous lift-soaring out, out, out, like a baseball hit smack on the nose...