Word: fastest
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...nationals with a double Mohawk -- one side dyed black, the other white. "Nelson's the wildest, most accident-prone human being who ever lived," says his coach, Chris Martin. "But you can't beat his talent." During the U.S. Olympic trials last March, Diebel swam the second fastest 100-m breaststroke in history...
...Fallen Angels," "The Land Where Legends Are Made," "The Capital of the Third World," "La-la Land"--the list of monikers for the metropolis goes on and on. Everyone from the Mamas and the Papas to Roland Barthes has theorized on the significance of the First World's fastest growing urban center...
Just before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, it looked as though the Westernizers had decisively won. Russia was by then a Western-oriented constitutional monarchy with the fastest-growing capitalist economy in Europe. Yet two years later, the Bolsheviks were declaring ideological war on Europe...
Whatever the reason for their popularity, the guns has become not only the fastest selling toy but also the most controversial...
...ended up in a Harlem hospital with a real 9-mm bullet lodged in his back. The new generation of water weapons, with their bulbous tanks and high-pressure air pumps, splash so hard, squirt so far and are so wildly popular (Larami's Super Soaker is the fastest-selling summer toy in the U.S. for the second year in a row) that some public officials fear the summer may be not just long and hot, but dangerously wet as well, if angry soakees shoot back with live ammunition. The mayor of Boston, reacting to a soaking and shooting that...