Word: whiz
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...zero Berkshire winds, enduring falls and frostbite with grins. My brother and I used to love to remember how Paul, usually the consummate athlete but only an amateur skier, was unafraid to lose a ski or two in his dogged pursuit of the expert trails. He was happy to whiz down the mountain with his friends and fully willing to end up in the snow instead of on it, if that’s what it took to have a good time...
Bell, the 5’9 shooting guard and defensive whiz from Brooklyn Park, Minn., entered her senior season as the second-most experienced player on the Crimson...
...course of developing his site, Ciarelli, who is also a Crimson editor, says he came to see himself more as a journalist covering Apple than a technological whiz...
...watched the deep foolishness that has marked the first months of George W. Bush's second term as President-both parties seem zealously intent on ignoring the common good-I've been thinking about a fellow I used to know, a marketing whiz named Jim Matson. Jim invented Heartland Natural Cereal, the first mass-market granola, which came in a sepia-toned box. It was a brilliant response to growing public nostalgia and a desire for "natural" products in the 1970s. His favorite pastime was to walk down a supermarket aisle sensing the products that weren't there. No doubt...
...Washington [NATION, July 22]. His candid Stockmanisms broke through the murky atmosphere of partisan political rhetoric like rays of sunshine. The clarity of his words and position gave hope to citizens who were tired of hearing horror stories about the deficit while watching its continued rise. Now that the Whiz Kid is leaving, the weather outlook is gloomy, and the chances for reducing the deficit seem bleak. Betty Driscoll Monkton...