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Word: fasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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About 250 ft. from the start, Arfons "kicked in" the jet's afterburner. At the first timing clock, he was doing 550 m.p.h. and accelerating fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Nightmare on the Flats | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

...electrical potential, or voltage difference, between the electrode-like regions becomes great enough and there is sufficient cloud turbulence, regions begin exchanging streams of charged droplets. When two of these counter-flowing streams-which move as fast as 500 m.p.h.-are within a quarter to half a mile of each other, the droplets act as an electrostatic motor rotor. As they whirl, they whip the surrounding air into the familiar and dreaded funnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meteorology: A Short Circuit for Tornadoes | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

...Volkswagen spurted from 277,000 sales to 308,000, while G.M.'s "German Opel climbed from fifth place to second among imports, with sales of 25,000, followed by Sweden's Volvo, Britain's MG and Japan's Datsun. The Japanese cars are rising fast: Toyota is now the second best-selling import in California, where the Japanese are driving hard prior to a nationwide push, and Honda will soon introduce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Buying Up but Selling Down | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

Some of them, members of the New England Committee for Non-Violent Action, then began what they said would be a week-long fast and vigil in Reed's honor outside the courthouse in Post Office Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: David Reed Gets 3-Year Sentence, Friends Demonstrate in Courtroom | 11/22/1966 | See Source »

Mayer's approach to HDC matters was a blend of fast talking and friends in high places. He made no attempt to hide personal likes and dislikes, which were legion. But he was always intelligent, almost always logical, and all to frequently right. Mayer might have been outclassed in the world of politics, but as a politician in the world of theatre, he was without peer...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Loeb Politics: Personalities Cloud Issues | 11/22/1966 | See Source »

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