Word: whiz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, at 21, Shirley completed Hollywood's classic domestic cycle-and startled millions of Americans who have followed her precocious public & private life with affection and a worrisome feeling that the years do whiz by. She filed a divorce suit against handsome, 28-year-old John Agar, the Army Air Forces sergeant who became a cinemactor after their marriage four years...
Director Henry Koster has told this gentle, humorous story with taste and a light touch. Best comedy bit: as the two nuns whiz through Manhattan in a borrowed jeep, Sister Margaret, the superbly efficient driver, explains to Sister Scholastica : "You'll notice, Sister, that I must signal to make a turn. It is the law." So saying, she makes a snappy U turn smack in the middle of Fifth Avenue, and parks on the curb in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral...
After some months of buildup, the portents had become so numerous and alarming that the Air Force began gathering all the data it could find on each report of "unidentified aerial phenomena" such as flying discs, space ships from Mars and things that go whiz in the air. Last week the National Military Establishment issued a statement on Project Saucer. Spinners of yarns about flying saucers, including a score or so of Air Force pilots, stuck stoutly to their stories. But the Air Force's scientists found no convincing evidence that mysterious aircraft (from Mars, or even from...
...Felton didn't break any window at Briggs Cago yesterday afternoon but his toss of 56 feet, 3 3/8 inches in special AAU open 35-pound weight throw was the goe-whiz performance of the four-event AAU track meet...
...plunged jauntily into a bigger-and what looked like an easier- assignment. Ten to 15 hours later, haggard and unshaven, he staggered away from one of the biggest and toughest political stories of a generation. The cub did a so-so job for a beginner, but nothing like the whiz-bang Philadelphia performance. The chief reason: the. conventions were shows that a TV camera could get its eye on, but an election, even an eye-opener like, this one, offered nothing much to look...