Miles Per Hour

They also predict attitudes about car ownership will be upended by a generation that cares more about slick smartphone apps than 0-to-60-miles-per-hour times. ❋ Joseph B. White (2011)

I find one of the worst intersections in the Washington area to be 16th Street NW and Irving Street NW, where the motorists ignore the posted 15 miles-per-hour limit, menace people in the crosswalks with their right-turning vehicles, and routinely speed through yellow lights. ❋ Post (2010)

Joba Chamberlain came to the mound for the eighth, and proceeded to blow away Jayson Werth and Raul Ibanez with a pair of fastballs that registered 97-miles-per-hour on the speed gun. ❋ William Fredrick Cooper (2011)

Some of his peers charge that he doesn't properly credit their scoops, and if his information is erroneous or he spells a name wrong, he says, "it's like an axe coming 150 miles-per-hour right at my head." ❋ Ben Cohen (2011)

With his fastball registering 95-miles-per-hour on the speed guns, his wicked sliders freezing left-handed hitters and a devastating changeup fooling right-handers, for the third time in the postseason he made Manager Joe Girardi look like a genius. ❋ William Fredrick Cooper (2011)

The phone apparently braved winds of 100 miles-per-hour and temperatures as cold as 60 below zero (the iPhone was smartly packed with hand warmers). ❋ The Huffington Post (2010)

A, The Man Van, the masculine minivan for men; B, The Speed Van, a 12-cylinder 300 horsepower van that can do 180 miles-per-hour; or C, The Nano-Van, half the size of a standard minivan, but with still seven seats? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Staying alive with a foul tip, the next pitch the Yankees right-fielder saw, an 89-miles-per-hour fastball right down the middle of the plate, was the pitch he was looking for. ❋ William Fredrick Cooper (2011)

Bringing heat, he got a quick strike on A-Rod, then uncorked another 92-miles-per-hour fastball. ❋ William Fredrick Cooper (2011)

The EF-5 tornado, which raked a three-mile path of destruction through the small town of Smithville, packed 205 miles-per-hour winds, according to the National Weather Service. ❋ Ryan Dezember (2011)

The ninth pitch, a 94-miles-per-hour heater, just missed the location both pitcher and catcher wanted. ❋ William Fredrick Cooper (2011)