Word: specking
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Down the beach sands at Brunswick, Ga., the plane started. It roared, rushed along, stopped. It was wheeled back and tried again. This time it cleared the sand, mounted easily and soon was a narrowing speck to the southward...
...Rome. Patriotic Italians obeyed gladly, went down to Ostia at the mouth of the river Tiber. The thousands who did not have official tickets of admission to the area of goodview were urged by bayonets to herd themselves a mile up the beach. Punctually at the appointed hour, a speck accompanied by lesser specks appeared in the air. . . . Commander Francesco de Pinedo had completed his 26,000-mile, four-continent (Europe, Africa, South America, North America) flight in the Santa Maria...
...Lake George, N.Y., a speck that had crawled swiftly over the map from Long Island descended upon the lake ice, which crackled, boomed, broke through. Natives pushed out in a rowboat, rescued the half-sunken plane's three people, who registered at a hotel as A. L. & Mrs. Caperton, and Pilot J. P. Herman, of Garden City...
Near Windermere, England, a speck circled, hovered about and landed upon the 300-ft.-by-20-foot plateau which is the summit of Mount Helvellyn, third highest eminence (3,118 feet) in England. Later the speck ascended again, soared away. It was Pilot John Leeming Of the Lancashire Aero Club who, with a bonfire on the snow to indicate the wind and crosses marking possible landing sites, sought to demonstrate upon what a small place an airplane can land...
Seventh Game. It was an electric Sunday afternoon. No one scored until the third inning, when a speck dropped into the leftfield bleachers and Ruth jogged around the bases pouting because he was all alone. Then Koenig fumbled, Meusel muffed, and the Cardinals scored thrice. In the sixth, New York squeaked in its second run and in the seventh filled the bases with two out. As swart Lazzeri dawdled to the plate, the Cardinals huddled around Pitcher Haines. In the stands an angry growl rose to pandemonium. Manager Hornsby came out of the huddle and shouted towards the distant "bull...