Word: whiz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Meters. Pitt's great Negro Arnie Sowell, who has been kicking cinders into the eyes of Fordham's Tom Courtney all year, saw Courtney (now running for the Army) whiz past his right shoulder and win by 5 yds, to set a new American record...
...first week of the All-England championships at Wimbledon, which more than ever seemed to be dominated by Australian men and U.S. women. Egypt's Jaroslav Drobny, 1954 champion, was beaten by an Indian with a rapier backhand called Ramanathan Krishnan. Ashley Cooper, the 19-year-old Australian whiz, beat third-seeded Sven Davidson of Sweden, and then Cooper himself was outlasted by unsung Allen Morris, onetime Georgia Tech footballer. Elegant Budge Patty, 1950 champion and seeded fourth, was ousted by Britain's hard-hitting but erratic 20-year-old Bobby Wilson. Luis Ayala of Chile downed Denmark...
Something went wrong with the Crimson, however, or perhaps something went right with North Carolina. They crushed the varsity, 8 to 1, and left the Crimson worrying a bit about Friday's meeting with the Miami tennis stars, most of them fresh from a year of "whiz-kidding" with Jack Kramer...
...half the game at the State University's big field house in Iowa City, Iowa's Hawkeyes matched the University of Illinois Whiz Kids, second-ranking team in the U.S., in the battle for the Big Ten basketball championship. Then Iowa Center Bill Logan (6 ft. 7 in.) hooked in a couple of feather-soft shots that started somewhere around his knees and gave his teammates a lead they never lost. After that the confident Hawkeyes ran away with the game. Final score: Iowa 96, Illinois...
...school principal, Stephen was qualified in every way. He is not only the brightest boy in his class; he is also a whiz in science and hopes some day to be a doctor. But all this apparently meant little to the South African government. The police first refused to give Stephen the usual "certificate of character" that most travelers carry. Then, in addition to the usual questioning that all Negro passport applicants must undergo, detectives subjected Stephen to an additional grilling on every topic, from why he wanted to go to the U.S. to what he thought was wrong with...