Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these men participate in what has become the world's fastest-growing business?the arms trade. The contracts they sign in one day could easily exceed a lifetime of sales made by the "merchants of death" of an earlier era, immortalized in Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw's Undershaft, whose credo was "to give arms to all men who offer an honest price for them, without respect of persons or principles ... to Capitalist and Socialist, to Protestant and Catholic, to burglar and policeman, to black man white man and yellow man, to all sorts and conditions, all nationalities, faiths...
Undefeated for the year, fourth-ranked Fred Fisher finished his match fastest. Disk Cashin, the number three man, met Fisher in the gallery after Fisher had dressed. "What's up?" asked the bewildered Cashin. "Oh, I just won," replied Fisher...
Shopping Center. To Schuller, "the church is in the business of retailing religion." If so, he is running one of the fastest-growing stores in the country. His 7,000-member congregation attracts 800 new members a year. He receives more than 10,000 letters each week from admirers, including Doris Day and Hubert Humphrey. The modern church, which he describes as "a 22-acre shopping center for Jesus Christ," is fast becoming a magnet for success-seeking clergymen. Schuller's biggest push for clerical recognition comes this week as he presides over a Convocation on Church Growth...
...gold-medal gymnast, the reflexes of a championship racing-car driver, the eye of a .400 hitter and the mind of a geometrician. Even then he is nothing if he has not conquered fear, for he lives in a vortex of violence in the world's fastest team sport. He is the hockey goalie, the masked man, the magnet for action...
Heavyweight coach Harry Parker lauded the achievements of last year's heavyweight crew, calling it "the strongest squad and fastest three boats I've ever...