Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Snub Nose. The easiest, fastest cone to develop was the "heat-sink"' type, made of thick copper. Since copper is an excellent conductor of heat, the cone's front surface could stay solid until the whole mass was near the melting point. To many, it seemed obvious that a nose cone should be made slim and sharp-pointed, capable of piercing the atmosphere with low resistance. But the contrary proved to be the case. Dr. H. Julian Allen of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics argued conclusively that a blunt nose was better for the heat-sink cone...
...Austria, was an early Nazi adherent. As chief of the Gestapo's Jewish Section, he drew up the lists of names, marshaled the freight cars that carried the victims to the camps, perfected the methods of slaughter-finally settling on "Zyklon B" as the gas that was fastest and cheapest. Jews indelibly remember Eichmann's cynical offer in 1944 to trade 1,000.000 Jews for 10,000 trucks. "Blood for merchandise, merchan dise for blood," he told a Jewish leader. "You can make your choice from Hungary, Poland, Austria, from Auschwitz or Theresienstadt, from wherever you like. Potent...
...lead. Then the packed stands began to bellow as Burleson started his famed finishing rush. Coming off the last turn, Burleson was just 2 yds. behind when Beatty, grinning with delight, spurted like a sprinter to finish 6 yds. in front. His time: 3:58, for the fastest mile ever run by an American...
...nearly blinded by glass fragments in his eyes. His crash helmet has been dented by a rival's car hurtling just over his head. And it is mostly because of his fascination with danger that Britain's Moss, 30, is by common consent the world's fastest driver...
...plane: the Convair 880, designed as the world's fastest transport, with a cruising speed of 615 m.p.h. over medium-range routes...