Word: mph
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...like a freshly painted fire hydrant. It was lunch time by now, and a young American named Bobby Reynolds was being served. Reynolds was game enough, going for broke at every opportunity, getting as much pace as he could muster behind every ball. But Nadal sent Reynolds 125 mph serves back at his feet, and showed a delicate touch from everywhere on the court. Despite those pants, this guy?s got style. The match ended before lunch...
...That precarious balancing act becomes even more difficult when a storm like Katrina, a Category 4 hurricane, rolls into town packing winds up to 140 mph. Ivan, was a smaller Category 3 storm with lower winds and waves. Damage estimates from Katrina are as high as $26 billion, and oil production in the Gulf will certainly be down, at least in the short term. Yesterday, oil futures spiked to $70.80 before easing to $67.90 by the end of the day, and all of this comes at a time when consumers are already paying high prices at the pump...
...people of New Orleans are surely not thinking about wind vortices, the coriolis effect or the dampness of the troposphere as they hunker down during hurricane Katrina this morning. They?re mostly thinking about the savage rains and 140 mph winds that have driven them from their homes. But it?s that meteorological arcana that?s made such a mess of the bayou, and to hear a lot of people tell it, we have only ourselves-and our global-warming ways-to blame...
...Brown—the team’s everyday shortstop and infield anchor—had missed five straight games due to a serious virus before returning to play last Tuesday against Northeastern. The rocket-armed, fleet-footed Salsgiver—who, notably, was clocked by scouts at 90 mph in relief against Dartmouth last weekend—led the team with 12 stolen bases in 14 attempts, hitting...
...threw 168 mph, I would be answering this question from my Bentley...