Word: mph
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...field of honor. A punt, pass and kick contest? Basketball, one on one? Or something a little less wholesome. What about chicken? We could put Gore at the wheel of a 1972 Volvo station wagon and Bush in a 1974 Camaro, and point them toward one another at 130 mph down a long straightaway of the interstate in Miami-Dade. The guy who veers off at the last instant loses the election. It would save a fortune in lawyers' fees...
...with wind gusts up to 45 mph, Yale's balanced offense took over. Elis quarterback Peter Lee threw for only 169 yards on 15-of-20 passing, but connected for four touchdowns...
...weather is getting colder. On Saturday, as the icy winds in Hanover, N.H., gusted to 25 mph, Harvard's passing game was slowed, not by anything that Dartmouth did on defense, but by the weather. The inclement conditions put the onus on the ground game to perform...
...British Airways says its Concordes gave the company prestige, shuttling the swells on their surprisingly cramped, 1,336-mph passage at $10,000 a head. A trip aboard one must have been like joining an exclusive but rather cramped and uncomfortable club. But part of its charm - to the small number of people who flew it - was that it was superior to the other planes, safer. For the price of a ticket, you were buying a guarantee...
...mph wind blowing out to sea, forced many of the ships to use their motors instead of moving by sail. Some ships moved in without the sails deployed, while others kept their sails up in the spirit of the event...