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But the brilliance of his early years and his dogged determination to succeed sustained him for decades after his rocketlike career was sidetracked.

From Washington Times • Nov. 24, 2014

Less honored denizens of Mayfair soon found characteristic ways of expressing their ill-concealed envy at the American's rocketlike rise in their rarefied atmosphere.

From Time Magazine Archive

A.R.A.'s rocketlike rise makes it a serious challenge to the once unchallenged monarch of the vending industry, Chicago's Automatic Canteen Co.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some did not like the rocketlike hood and nose air intake that resembles the 1949 Ford.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet those distant fires and rocketlike blasts into the sky had a wavery blur.

From Key Out of Time by Norton, Andre