Word: sped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most awkward was the existence of the terror-stricken Jews themselves. Nightmares of the Hitlerian slaughter drove them on. In Poland sporadic anti-Jewish outbursts sped them. They filtered into the Allied-occupied zones of Germany...
Fifteen years passed. England was torn by civil war. Honor, crippled for life, was politically very much on her toes; she sped about the King's business in a wheel chair. Richard, very unhappy with his wife (he now had "a brown, weather-beaten air about him"), was appointed King's General in the West. When he bumped into Honor at the Cavalier headquarters he said, rather tactlessly: "I had not thought to find you so damnably unchanged." Then he asked: "Have you not your own apartment?" Said Honor with "some small attempt at dignity": "It would...
...revolt had made rapid progress since it welled up less than two months ago. Most of Azerbaijan (see map) was already in rebel hands. Rebel columns sped along the swampy Caspian littoral to seize the town of Bandar Shah; they headed east toward Iran's sacred city of Meshed...
...British in a sharp action at Semarang in central Java. U.S.-made Sherman tanks helped British Indian troops finally clear most of Surabaya. Noisy, effective Indonesian radio stations cried to the youth of the Indies to rise and join their jungle columns. At week's end the British sped Mosquito-borne rockets into two radio stations...
...grant from Harvard University and, somewhat to his surprise, induced Mrs. Fuller to let him carry off the horde. She also turned over to him heaps of Thackeray material that she had been amassing for years. Harvard promptly pressed another money grant on lucky Editor Ray. The Guggenheim Foundation sped him a fat check. Libraries, museums, private collectors deluged him with additional material. Last month from the Harvard University Press dropped The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, two volumes, 1,375 pages, weight: 7 Ibs. Two concluding volumes are promised for next spring...