Word: whirlwinding
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Captain Brian Davis, at two, started like a whirlwind, lost his concentration temporarily, and then came on stronger than ever to win, 6-3, 6-8, 6-0. He blew a 4-1 lead in the second...
...speeches from New England to the West Coast, he has impressed audiences with his articulateness and quickness of mind. He has a reservoir of sympathy as a result of the still-unsolved murder of his daughter Valerie last September. In the Senate, Percy got off to a whirlwind start, persuading 27 colleagues to co-sponsor a bill calling for a Government-supported private corporation to help slum residents buy their own dwellings...
...hard-working housemaid. What with jet flights getting shorter and menus growing longer, the stewardesses' life aloft is a kind of hell in the heavens. There are as many as 195 guests to greet, seat, serve ancj-within reason-sate, and the girls must perform like a whirlwind combination of Jean Shrimpton, Gwen Cafritz, a short-order cook and a nurse for all ages. One Western Air Lines time-motion expert, for instance, has figured out that on an 85-minute flight with 122 people aboard, a stewardess averages no more than 23 seconds with each passenger. Whereas...
...leaders of Nigeria's four ethnic regions seemed unable to agree on a place to meet, much less on a way to keep the tottering federal government on its feet. Then, suddenly, Gowon and the four regional heads dropped everything and took off for Accra, Ghana. After two whirlwind days of secret negotiations at one of Kwama Nkrumah's old villas, the five men, gushing optimism, emerged from the conference table. Lt. Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu, leader of the Eastern Ibos whose threatened secession precipitated the present crisis, called the negotiations "a very big success." Gowon said simply, "Nigeria will definitely...
...Curtiss-Wright Corp. from 1935 to 1949, whose love of speed took him from auto racing and designing (the 1908 Vaughan Runabout) into aviation, where he mass-produced 2,000 airplane engines per month during World War I, went on to develop the first truly U.S. engine (the Whirlwind J5, which powered the Spirit of St. Louis), and expanded his company in World War II to produce 142,840 engines and 26,269 military aircraft; of chronic bronchitis; in-New Rochelle...