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Word: fasted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more information on a particular area is needed, aircraft can be called upon to supplement the satellite. The needle-sleek Lockheed SR-71 (Blackbird), which flies more than three times as fast as sound at above 85,000 ft., makes occasional photo-reconnaissance runs over Cuba. The old standby, the, U2, also goes on photographic and electronic "ferreting" missions, but it remains almost 20 miles high and well outside Cuban airspace to keep from being shot down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Where Was Our Man in Havana? | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...water for the submerged car door. They dragged one of the two women from the river and collapsed from overexposure. A month later they were to be commended for saving one woman's life. Not every day in the life of a University policeman is that memorable, but the fast response was a sign of a new and professional force--one that has created tension between the police and the Harvard administration...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: Police: Chafin' at the Bit | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

Ferrante's speed is exceptional--in practice this fall she broke the record of a dribbling drill by 20 seconds--but Scalise was quick to point out recently that "all the girls are fast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Return With League Title | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

...amazes me. She's such an exceptional athlete," Scalise said in an interview last year. "She's very gifted and fast. She's determined. She does what is very difficult for a coach to get than straight-up set blocking, to hold off the opposition...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Women Return With Ivy Championship to Boot | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

Late this July, the then unrepentent company went to Capitol Hill with the crafty smugness of overconfidence. Its representatives intended to shake down the United States Congress for a fast billion...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Chrysler Squeezes the Feds | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

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