Word: speediest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before this weekend's second annual U.S.A. Women's International Swimming Competition was over, however, a perky group of U.S. teenagers, undaunted by the absence of some of their speediest countrywomen because of suspension by the Amateur Athletic Union (see page three), managed to avoid a repeat of the 1976 Montreal fiasco and provide a semblance of respectability to the American effort...
...rapid self-enrichers seem to be motivated by greed. It seems more likely that they recognize "money, pur et simple," in Bagehot's phrase, as the shortest, speediest route to public recognition, self-esteem and power-or, simply, security in a threatening world...
Senior Scott Johnson started the season by staking himself as the speediest at a slalom staged with Boston College during vacation. Though captain of the storming squad, studies stayed Johnson from Saturday's slalom. Counting on the strength of greater depth than any recent team, although lacking the services of graduated superstar Ben Steele, Carter says the squad should surpass any Crimson team of the last five years...
BICKEL: I also think it was an unwise action. The critical point is that the highest national interest lies in the speediest resolution of all this. The House may or may not turn out to have a function that coexists with that of the judiciary. There was nothing to be lost and everything to be gained in appointing a select committee and getting a process started that is bound to be lengthy...
...effort to rescue the Ugandans has been one of the speediest operations in the history of U.S. immigration. Taking at face value Amin's dire threats of retribution if the Asians do not leave by Nov. 8, the U.S. invoked a special provision of the Immigration Law that permits the U.S. Attorney General to accept refugees under his "parole." Once they arrive in America they can apply for permanent residency and eventually citizenship...