Word: sped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arriving in Manhattan, Satirist Evelyn Waugh, 43-for years one of Britain's very brightest young men-ducked the press for three days and then sped off to Hollywood on what sounded like a dream mission, even by Hollywood standards. He would listen to MGM's ideas on filming his Brideshead Revisited; if he didn't like the sound of them, he could suggest changes; if the changes weren't suitable, he could just go sell the book to someone else. Meantime, M-G-M had contracted to maintain him in the most luxurious possible style...
...Wudderful way to sped a huddybood, isid...
...blonde screamed: "Let me out . . . let me out!" "You shut your trap," said Percy Boon. The car sped over London's lonely, foggy Wimbledon Common, and Police Constable Lamb, leaping over the curb to safety, glimpsed the struggling couple in the front seat. A few hours later, detectives in raincoats were standing over the blonde's dead body-while Percy, hatless, bloody, hysterical, ran desperately for shelter in the myriad streets of London...
Trailing clouds of E. Phillips Oppenheim, Dr. Zaleski raced to Ste. Anne de Beaupre. As he feared, he was too late. The 24 cases there had also been handed over. Dr. Zaleski sped to the bank. Ah, the cases were there. But the bank bluntly refused to give them up except jointly to the two men who had deposited them, Dr. Zaleski and his colleague, Jozef Polkowski, a London Pole...
...Washington, Reparations Representative Ed Pauley prepared a report for President Truman recommending that the U.S. pull up its socks in Korea: as in Germany, there was no point in simply waiting for Russian cooperation on unified control of the country. Japanese reparations to Korea must be sped up, machinery moved into the U.S. zone of Korea and economic aid supplied, so that the whole area will develop into a unit capable of independent government. The U.S., said Pauley, has a clear opportunity and responsibility to demonstrate to Koreans that democracy will work better than Communism...