Word: sped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Basically it was the same play on which Patton had sped to a touchdown in the Battle of France, after the First Army had opened up a hole for him in the Saint-Lô breakthrough. There, as at the Rhine, it had been Quarterback Bradley's precise timing and teamwork that had shaken Patton loose to do his spectacular stuff. Now, as he had after Saint-Lô, it was Halfback Patton who captured the headlines. He was definitely in nomination for Public Hero No. 1 of the war in Europe...
Catholic, democratic Colombia last week rocked with a Guy Fawkes scandal. Almost on the eve of Congressional elections, police surrounded the impressive colonial Cathedral of Bogota. Before a party of Church and Government officials who sped to the scene, they respectfully uncovered 800 bombs in the organ loft...
...spearhead force sped down the slope to the bridge entry. There was a flurry of shooting. A German gun was knocked out, some German soldiers killed. Then, warily, some of the Yanks ran onto the bridge. There was an explosion. A guard had touched off one of the charges. But it did little damage. More Americans raced on, seized two Germans on the bridge. Then the Americans were across. A few Germans fled to a tunnel piercing a hill. A few surrendered...
...from their brown mud tracks in green fields to encircle and smash fire at some stubborn strong point. Behind this came miles of trucks full of troops, maneuvering perfectly to mop up bypassed tough spots. Then came the field artillery to pound hard knots into submission. From the flanks sped clouds of tank destroyers cutting across the landscape in wild swoops that hit the enemy and cut off communications with bewildering speed...
...ruins, but for miles around them. Zhukov forced a crossing of the unfrozen Vistula 57 miles south of the city, widened his bridgehead and then struck with the full weight of his armor to carve out a breakthrough. Zhukov's tanks fought and won two battles as they sped northward to the Warsaw-Lódź highway. Eighteen miles north of the city another Russian force made its crossings, struck through to join the main column on the highway. Warsaw was taken from the rear. By the time it fell, most of Zhukov's columns were closing...