Word: swiftness
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Watching Hope among. people, says Artist Marion Pike, a family friend, is "a most moving experience." As he ambles through a crowd, eyes light and smiles turn on in swift progression, like a series of lamps brightening up a corridor. What the crowds, large or small, recognize is not only a man who has made them laugh but one who, without sentimentality, ostentation or ballyhoo, has become a national hero. The trophy room in Hope's North Hollywood home is filled like an overendowed museum with awards, honorary degrees and gifts that would be the envy of a Nobel...
Writers Squad. To the show-business professionals who have watched him work, Hope's old self is a remarkable study in technique-the powerful pause, the swift switch in subject matter, bridged by "And I wanna tell you -. " or "And how about ..." Although he is an extraordinarily witty man offstage, his schedule requires the support of a squad of writers who whack out jokes literally by the thousands...
Capote's book was constructed cinematically, with swift cuts from the killers to the family to the police, flashbacks from the trial to the crime itself...
...first transplanted human heart was in place. But it had not been beating since Denise died. Would it work? Barnard stepped back and ordered electrodes placed on each side of the heart and the current (25 watt-seconds) applied. The heart leaped at the shock and began a swift beat. Dr. Barnard's heart leaped too. Through his mask, he exclaimed unprofessionally but pardonably, "Christ, it's going to work!" Work...
...time bettered the old cage record, set in 1962 by Army's RobinLingle, by nearly three seconds. Shaw finished second, 25 yards behind the swift Englander. McDonald was fourth...