Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hunt said a score achilles tendon almost kept Beckford from competing yesterday, but the injury did not appear to affect his star runner, as she recorded the fifth fastest time (17:22) ever run on the 5,000 meter Franklin Park course...
Going by the mile with a split of 4:33 (their fastest of the season), Eichner and Murphy controlled the pace and the Bruins were never even close. Scidmore, running his best race ever as a collegiate, zipped by the co-leaders during the fourth mile. He slipped back to third again, when his legs suddenly "became leaden" and ended up 10 seconds behind the front runners...
Probably the fastest member on the Crimson team, Ferrante went one-on-one with the Brown center before getting off a shot on goal...
...beautiful and as complicated as any on earth." The story also examines the issues raised by last week's visit of Mexican President José López Portillo to Washington. Says White: "We can no longer afford to patronize, misunderstand and ignore a country that contributes the fastest-growing minority segment to our population, and one that could have the resources to bring us comfortably through the energy crisis...
...acres have been expropriated from huge haciendas and given to 25,000 communal ejidos (peasant associations) composed of families who have occupied the land for centuries. Nevertheless, there are still 4.5 million landless campesinos. The gap is partly attributable to the fact that the rural poor are among the fastest-growing segments of Mexico's population. But the plight of the campesinos has been made worse by government support of agribusiness. Only about 15% of Mexico's land is suitable for cultivation. Most of this is farmed by huge agrarian combines that produce tomatoes, eggplants, chick peas, strawberries and asparagus...