Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weighs fully 15 lbs. more than any of his competitors. Experts scoff at his size ("If he were lighter, he could run faster"), his racing tactics ("unscientific"), his graceless running style ("like a Sherman tank with overdrive"). But they all concede that, at 23, Peter Snell is the fastest middle-distance runner in track history...
...took off like a rocket," said Burleson later. "He just went whoosh." Snell broke the tape in 3 min. 56.1 sec.-the fastest mile ever run in the U.S. Astonished dockers timed his last 120 yds. in 13.4 sec.-the equivalent, approximately, of a 10-sec. 100-yd. dash. Said Snell: ""I was never in doubt I would...
What makes Houphouet-Boigny's beliefs important is his position as undisputed boss of the strongest, fastest growing and most influential of all the nations in Africa's former French Community, a fragmented empire that dominates the continent's huge western shoulder...
...Zealand's Peter Snell, 23, world's fastest miler (3:54.4), over the U.S.'s best, Oregon's Dyrol Burleson, in a new American record time of 3:56.1; at Los Angeles Coliseum Relays. Burleson clung to the pace for three laps, but on the final go-round Snell turned on his famous kick, sprinted the last 220 yds. in a blazing 24.5 sec., hit the tape more than...
...company called Top Value Enterprises in the belief that the trading stamp fad had about run out. Last week, with a broad grin, "Mac" MacDonald, 61, admitted that he had been dead wrong. He could afford to grin, because today his E.F. MacDonald Co. is the nation's fastest growing supplier of trading stamps and stamp premiums...