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Word: whirlwinding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never stopped sprinting. His whirlwind 56.7 final quarter, run with a graceful, almost lazy style, was the most dazzling burst ever seen in the 57-year history of the Penn Relays. It completely beat down Wilt and an off-form Gehrmann, and wiped out Glenn Cunningham's 17-year-old Penn Relay record by 3.5 sec. Bannister's time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Flying Miler | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

First, Hermione Gingold. As she will tell you herself soon after the show begins, it's pronounced "Hermy-oh-nee." She is a performer with a flamboyant earthy style that takes you by storm. She flounces about like a whirlwind, lifts her skirts slyly, twists her string of pearls, tosses off innuendoes, and grimaces. When she has good material, and luckily that is often, she is howlingly funny. For example, her discussion and demonstration of some obscure comp o s e r's "Grasshopper's Dance" is a genuine delight...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: The Playgoer | 3/17/1951 | See Source »

Working nights and weekends, they wrote stockholders, charged the management was "inefficient and decadent " and should be tossed out. To round up proxies Smith flew his secondhand Beechcraft Bonanza plane one-armed around the country (blood poisoning cost him his right arm when a boy). In his whirlwind campaign, Smith spent more than $6,000 -but it paid off. At the stockholders' meeting last October, Smith's group won by 14,000 votes out of the 600,000 cast. Out of the $25,000-a-year presidency went

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: A Stockholder Takes Hold | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...Last week LeBlanc and his whirlwind medicine show blew into Hollywood to launch Hadacol there. Opening a 30-day ballyhoo campaign (which included a star-studded $75,000 radio show, featuring Groucho Marx and Judy Garland), the senator announced that he had already taken $1.5 million worth of orders for Hadacol in the movie capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Mixture As Before | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

...Frankfurt, World Welterweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson over Hans Stretz, onetime German champion, a fifth-round knockout to wind up Robinson's whirlwind victory tour (five wins in five fights) of the Continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

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