Word: sped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bruno, Vittorio and Donna Rachele Mussolini enjoyed in Sabine rusticity the presence of Babbo Benito. Then, restless, he sped off with Donna Mussolini to Florence, visited their daughter Edda at the Institute di Poggio Imperiale, where she is a student. After luncheon Donna Rachele boarded a train for Carpena...
...well-sleeked motor purred into London last week, its hood piled high with sprays of lilac, armfuls of bluebells. As the car sped down Whitehall, slowed, turned into Downing Street, passing Londoners smiled at the genial Briton who beamed from the tonneau upon the world in general. It was like Premier Baldwin, the Londoners told each other, to go motoring in the country for a few days, recreate himself thoroughly, and then return to grapple with the coal strike, which continued last week despite the calling off of the great "general strike" (TIME...
...Marshal's rescuers sped to succor him, he, adroit, parleyed with the Nationalist mob. The soldiers came. Pilsudski saw and conquered. While the Nationalists fled, the soldiers stayed to cheer, to work themselves into a frenzy in which they demanded that Pilsudski lead them to Warsaw, overturn the Cabinet, free Poland of scalawags...
...woman pointing a revolver. II Duce, intent upon his thoughts, did not notice the blue steel muzzle trained upon his temple. As a band struck up the Fascist hymn, "Giovinezza," he threw back his head and fixed his eyes on a staff flying the Italian flag. The bullet sped, but not into Signor Mussolini's brain. He had thrown back his head sufficiently so that it pierced only the tip of his nostrils. Tiny stinging powder burns seared his cheek, his lips...
...they sped, peering over the horizon for some distant rising film that would mean land. They reached what their instruments told them was the approximate point reached by Captain Robert E. Bartlett in the ice-ship Karluk in 1913; flew another hour, whizzing 70 miles into a frozen desert never before penetrated by man. When they circled back they had seen no land, but from their lofty lookout they had explored by eye a swath of the unknown perhaps 60 miles wide and 100 long ? 6,000 square miles of "new world." Returning, they had flown far inland before...