Word: sped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Drombrowski shot through a quick opening at right tackle, sped 30 yards to the R.A.F. 15. Two tacklers waited for him. Drombrowski lateraled to Harbert, blocked the astonished Britons, watched his teammate score again. Twelve times such razzle-dazzle plays clicked for touchdowns. Final score at Cairo's Gezira Club: U.S. Army "Rebels," 79; R.A.F...
Sitadevi embraced Mohammedanism, got a divorce. She and her suitor sped to Bombay at New Year's, married quietly after Sitadevi had resumed her Hindu faith. In Baroda, the Gaekwar's subjects talked of asking him to abdicate...
Three years later. Herbert Hoover, then a young mining engineer in Australia, sped back to Palo Alto to marry Lou Henry. They spent their honeymoon on a ship to China, en route to his new job as director of China's mines. Thereafter, for twelve years, Lou Henry Hoover made homes all over the world-Peking, Tientsin, Tokyo, Mandalay, Australia, St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), Paris, London. By the time her first son, Herbert Jr., was three years old he had been around the world three times...
Black Hours. A mile ahead something was happening. The early waves were not hitting the beach as they should. A control boat sped up and its officer shouted : "You'll have to go in right away as soon as I can get a boat for you. The shell around the island is too shallow to take the Higgins boats." The news was chilling. It meant something dimly foreseen but hardly expected: the shallow coral reef around Betio would bar landing save by special small, steel-plated boats, of which there were all too few, or by wading...
...phone jangled in the Pennsylvania farmhouse at 2 a.m. A sleepy man answered it, snapped wide awake. The Navy needed more bean soup. Soon, from a nearby factory, a truck loaded with big black cans rolled out, sped to the Philadelphia airport. The cans were hustled into a plane, flown to San Francisco, then on to Pearl Harbor. There they were dumped into a waiting boat. It chuffed out to sea, met a ship that had been burning for three days. The cans were tossed to the exhausted crew. Quickly, the bean soup in the big black cans snuffed...