Word: faster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would have liked Bobby to have gone out a little faster and put pressure on Goodell early in the race, but how can I complain?" Harvard coach Joe Bernal said afterwards. "Four seconds better than he's ever done, swimmers of his caliber just don't do that," he added...
Raikula, because of his 17th place ranking on the World Best Time list this summer, must be considered the strongest candidate to score. The freshman from Kansas literally cruised to victory at the Easterns in the 200-yd. backstroke and later admitted that he "probably could have gone faster if I'd have paid less attention to the other guys in the race and worried more about what I was doing...
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...mots flowed faster than the Clement Colombet Chablis at the American Film Institute dinner in Beverly Hills, Calif., honoring bulbous Meisterzinger of Murder Alfred Hitchcock at 79. "Hitch's genius," quipped Actor John Forsythe, "is that he can put such life into death." Ingrid Bergman praised the director as "a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh." Ventured Cary Grant, who managed to emerge alive from four Hitchcock epics: "The best is yet to come, Hitch." Spattered with tributes and smothered by adoration, Hitchcock observed in his familiar bullfrog voice: "Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection...
...auto companies are spending staggering sums to comply with the regulations as well as to shrink the highway cruiser and develop new, more conserving engines for powering it. GM alone will lay out $5 billion in capital spending this year. Still, Government pressure increases for even sharper and faster change. Transportation Secretary Brock Adams has called on automakers to achieve even greater gas economy by doing "nothing less than reinventing the car." One of his goals is a fleet that will average 50 m.p.g. by the year...