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Word: fastest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little like being the fastest gun in the West," mused Jesse ("Big Daddy") Unruh, speaker of the California Assembly and 265-lb. strongman of his state's Democratic politics. "Every punk who comes around wants to try you out for size." Unruh knew what he was talking about: he was, after all, being shot at from all sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: Shooting at Big Daddy | 8/23/1963 | See Source »

Chief reasons for the coin shortage are the growing population, the increased gross national product, the proliferation of vending machines and parking meters, and the penny-gobbling of local sales taxes. A factor that is harder to measure is the mushroom growth of one of America's fastest-growing hobbies-numismatics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hobbies: It's Not Just Money | 8/23/1963 | See Source »

...motorcycle and, hélas, a motorcycle that can beat any automobile. Breedlove only shrugged. He was finally going to take a vacation. "If someone breaks my record," he said, "I'll be right back." In the meantime, if Spirit of America was only history's fastest tricycle, that was all right with him. It was undeniably, he knew, the fastest something or other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: A Dream of Speed | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

Until this summer, hustling Tampa was cornering new industries and jobs at one of the fastest paces in Florida. Last week the palmy west coast metropolis was deep in economic crisis: its small businessmen moaned about the lack of business, its big stores drew slim responses from their ads, and payrolls were down by at least $1,000,000 a month. The six counties around Tampa are suffering from a strike against the General Telephone Co. of Florida -a strike with a bitter difference. In a wave of vandalism and sabotage unmatched in Florida's history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Sabotage in Tampa | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

Among other children a one-eyed child is playing, the fastest runner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winning Poems: The Moods of Summer | 8/13/1963 | See Source »

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