Word: whizzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bears had a great team, all right. They were big and fast - and from their T formation those 250-lb. tanks masquerading in football pants could whizz along like an armored column. But 8-to-5 favorites? Nuts! Washington had His Excellency Slingin' Sammy Baugh, "the best football pitcher in the world." The Redskins also had three of pro football's best pass receivers. Only two clubs had succeeded in stopping Washington's air attack all season. And the big, bad Bears were not one of them...
With the script thus carefully prepared, Director Litvak, a notoriously slow worker, was able to whizz along with almost no changes in filming (a Hollywood record), finishing some three weeks ahead of schedule. Whenever two or three reels could be got in a can, the film was rushed to Hal Wallis, who sat with a dictaphone in front of him, spouting such corrections as "Take out the noise when she blows the lamp out"; "Get a new voice for the old man roasting apples"; "See if you haven't another angle where Davis doesn't yank the little...
...building's base. When a dog stopped to relieve himself, an electric current would pass up the stream, shock the dog and dissuade him from repeating his act. There was no question of the novelty of that. Scrupulous patent attorneys try to dissuade the concocters of such whizz-bangs from wasting their money on patents...
...December to May). Its 60 miles of varied trails (including daredevil Nose Dive) are enough for two weeks' skiing without duplication. Other famed Eastern trails for experts: Mt. Greylock's Thunderbolt, steepest of the 16 downhill trails in the Berkshires; Suicide Six, near Woodstock, Vt., where schussnuts whizz down its 1,800 feet in less than 60 seconds; Tuckerman's Ravine, a natural snow bowl near the top of Mt. Washington, nearest approach to an Alpine ski run east of the Rockies...