It helped that Bolt got a lightning-quick start.
Vadim has a lightning-quick mind for arithmetic and a fondness for record-keeping.
Bradshaw can make something out of nothing with a lightning-quick cut.
Marino also had a lightning-quick release and an inordinate ability to sense pressure and avoid it.
A lightning-quick series of swings ensued, so quick that officials later had to examine the videotape to ascertain how many times Na hit the ball.
Ashe was a lightning-quick winger when he came into the league.
When, late in the dance, Strafaccia executed a lightning-quick multiple turn, his face expressed only a contemplative assurance, and he continued on.
A bigger test comes Monday against a lightning-quick Milwaukee Bucks backcourt that will demand pick-and-roll switches and constant harassment from the Knicks' big men.
They scored 14 points in 45 seconds with a lightning-quick barrage of 3-pointers and a fullcourt pressing defense.
And that was where she had died, in a lightning-quick fire caused by pyrotechnics that snuffed out 96 lives.
