Word: whizzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Delt house, where he is president for the second year, he is a sharp bridge player and a whizz at cribbage. His card sense helps augment his G.I. allotment and the $50 a month he gets from his dad, who is an executive in a Toledo, O., porcelain-products company. On the practice field, Chappuis is very "coachable," which is exceptional in a senior. Chappuis learns easily, just as he does in the classroom, where he makes a C-plus average seemingly without ever opening a book...
...Watched its sales whizz past the 150,000 mark...
...bombs, but you'd rather do anything than give those gunners a straight shot at you. You level off and hang on. Tracer bullets stream up past the nose. You can see them coming a long way off and they come so slow, so leisurely till suddenly they whizz by like miniature meteors. The light on the instrument panel blinks rapidly as the bombs are released and you are free to begin dodging again. You have all the speed you can get and the controls are like iron. What was seconds seems hours before you are clear...
Last week Canadians were reminded that even ah Ace can be trumped. Starting out like a whizz-ten lengths in front at three furlongs, 20 in front at the halfway mark-the colt that had wiped out all bets for the Derby fizzled on the last turn. He finished last...
...average ballplayer, Rizzuto does everything with a pinch of snuff. He leaps for balls, slides for bases, scoots around like a catnipped rabbit. Last year he led the American Association in assists, putouts, stolen bases. As if that were not enough for a five-foot-fiver, Rizz the Whizz batted .347, an average good enough to lead the league until the season's final fortnight. For these accomplishments Scooter Rizzuto was voted the Most Valuable Player in all 43 minor leagues...