Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...retrieved the ball, raced back to help. Score's face was already blackening, his nose was broken, a dangerous hemorrhage was clouding his eyeball. Even before they examined him in a hospital, specialists were wondering whether they could save his sight. At 23, already one of the fastest and potentially one of the finest pitchers in the history of the game, Herb Score seemed finished with baseball...
Throughout the taut and tiny land of Israel blue-and-white flags bearing the Star of David fluttered proudly in observance of the ninth Independence Day celebration of the Middle East's fastest-growing and toughest nation. But even more symbolic of Israel's independent spirit was the arrival, in five boatloads, of 2,600 immigrants, the largest number to arrive in a single day since...
...Stability in which to work for better solutions is only the start, but it is a necessary start. The young King who was bringing it about, with some faltering in tactics but with surprising firmness of purpose, has, said one admiring American observer, "completed his sophomore year in the fastest time on record...
WORLD'S FASTEST PLANE, rocket-propelled X-15, with potential speed of 3,500 to 4,000 m.p.h., is being built at North American Aviation's Los Angeles plant. For it New Jersey's Reaction Motors is developing rocket engine with greater thrust than that of Bell X-2 plane that flew to 126,000 ft. and 1,900 m.p.h...
Died. Bernard J. (Bernie) Wefers, 84, known in the 18903 as the "world's fastest human" for his unofficial record (9.4 sec.) in the 100-yd. dash (shaved to 9.3 sec. in 1948) and national champion in the 100-yd. and 220-yd. dashes in 1895, '96 and '97; in New York City...