Word: shortest
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...much to do, so little time. The 100-m dash is at once the shortest foot race in the Olympics, the longest running and the most fabled. It has belonged to Harold Abrahams, Jesse Owens, Bob Hayes, Carl Lewis, Wilma Rudolph and Flo-Jo, not to mention a man named Stella. Ever since Antwerp in 1920, when Charley Paddock gulped down a raw egg in a glass of sherry and defeated five rivals with a time of 10.8 sec., the winner has been declared "the world's fastest human." Basically, the race is 10 sec. that last a lifetime. Adding...
...this moment our star is in a plane over New York City. He needs to reach his main witness (Williams) before some malevolent brutes erase her identity by wiping her out. Figuring that the shortest distance between two points is straight down, Arnold throws a parachute out the plane door, jumps after it, flies like Superman to catch up with it, then dodges the plane as it circles back to kill...
...judge by Ants on the Melon, Adair is a natural miniaturist. The longest verse in the collection is 52 lines, the shortest a mere seven. The poemlets are as richly terse as haiku, while themes in the longer ones reverberate like novels in cameo. Her images are tellingly precise, surprising. In "Mojave Evening," coyotes gather "And not far enough to mean fear/ only decorum/ the periscope ears of three/ no five rabbits. Waiting...
...apply Mathews' theory, Dole triumphed in the primaries because he was the tallest man in the race. Dick Lugar was the shortest...
...November, he pleaded his case succinctly in a letter to the Court which said in part: "First. The time of the year is unseasonable, being now very near the shortest day, and the depth of winter.... Third. The place from which I go, hath fire, fuel, and all provisions for man and beast, laid in for the winter." Mr. Dunster obviously knew whereof he spoke (and shivered), and the Court luckily granted him a reprieve for the winter from the cold New England wilderness...