Word: split-second
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Princeton is known as much for its eating clubs and elitism as for its methodical sports teams. Its men's and women's basketball teams pass around the perimeter endlessly, or at least until one of its opponents is a split-second behind on a cut, and its men's lacrosse team won a national championship by essentially boring Maryland to death...
Writers, spurred by Coe, paid little attention to TV's restrictions. They'd have characters flash back from old age to youth and back again (requiring split-second makeup applications) or dream up odd location scenes. Coe's own script, This Time Next Year, called for the ghost of Ulysses S. Grant to materialize at Grant's Tomb. The actor playing Grant was to jump into an NBC limo and get uptown in time for the "remote." But there was no limo. So the actor hailed a cab and, in full Grant regalia, ordered, "Take me to Grant's Tomb...
...overcome in deciding to donate your organs: the specter of death for one thing, signing documents for another. This week three members of Congress who cover all the organ-donation bases--Senator Mike DeWine, who made the issue his top priority after having to make a split-second decision to donate the organs of his 22-year-old daughter killed in a car accident in 1993; Senator Bill Frist, a surgeon who actually did transplants; and Representative Joe Moakley, who walks the halls of Congress thanks to a donated liver--will launch National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week...
...single goal can mean the difference between winning a championship and being an also-ran. A single moment, a split-second reaction or a brief shift in momentum can determine who walks away with their heads held high. And it is in these situations that a team shows its true character, a character often reflective of its captain...
...Harris, who plasy Flight Director Eugene Kranz, exudes this get-it-done-any cost attitude, keeping Mission Control calm, neatly assessing the situation as it unfolds on the ground, soliciting opinions from the various ground controllers and making split-second decisions...