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Word: fastest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rubbing alcohol and Sterno - with predictably disastrous results. By last week, an estimated 150 Kuwaiti had died from alcohol poisoning, several hundred more had been blinded, and Kuwait's hospitals were filled to overflowing. Bathtub gin is flourishing, and bootlegging the real thing has become Kuwait's fastest growing business. A fifth of Dewar's White Label Scotch now commands a sheik's ransom of $50 on the black market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kuwait: Oil, Oil Everywhere, But Not a Drop to Drink | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

Following Captain Bill Shrout's record-breaking example, Coach Benn Merritt's freshmen came from behind in the final freestyle relay to upset highly-favored Dartmouth 50-45. Shrout anchored the relay in a cool 47.4 seconds, the fastest 100-yard split ever done by a Harvard swimmer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Sink Indians; Shrout Leads Freshmen With New NCAA Mark | 1/18/1965 | See Source »

...stocks that U.S. investors hear and read most about are often not the biggest gainers. The value of shares on the New York Stock Exchange rose by $46 billion in 1964, as 853 stocks advanced and only 287 retreated. Of the ten fastest-rising issues on the exchange, four turned out to be railroad stocks. The winners and their gains, as reported last week by the Wall Street firm of Hornblower & Weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: Winners & Losers | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

...Eagles lived up to their reputation as the speediest team on Harvard's schedule, but the Crimson kept up with them all the way until the end. The result was the fastest and best-played game in Watson Rink this year, and perhaps in many years...

Author: By Joel Havemann, | Title: Last-Minute Rally by B.C. Sextet Sets Back Scrappy Crimson, 3-2 | 1/14/1965 | See Source »

...scoreless second period was the fastest of all as the action zoomed up and down the ice. Seconds after B.C.'s Kinsman hit a post on a breakaway, Harvard's Eddie Zellner just failed to get off a shot with an open corner of the Eagle net in front...

Author: By Joel Havemann, | Title: Last-Minute Rally by B.C. Sextet Sets Back Scrappy Crimson, 3-2 | 1/14/1965 | See Source »

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