Word: sped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Close over the ground he sped at 350 miles an hour, pulling away from all but one Zero. Then, Cocky said, he began thinking to himself: "Here I'm the guy who's been doing all the talking and I'm running away." He made a turn and found himself coming head-on toward the Zero. The Jap made a quick half-roll, momentarily flying upside down and attempting to get on top. Cocky pulled up and poured three or four bursts into the Jap, whose plane began spitting blue flame. The planes whizzed by each other...
...streets. Every few hours Moscow heard the clump clump clump of marching feet. Often the marchers were new recruits-old men, young men, women-getting their initial training. Sometimes they were labor battalions. One afternoon there was the groan of airplane motors overhead and 50 huge black bombers sped low over the city, heading north. Unlike London, free from the pressure of bombing raids, and the U.S., stewing about inflation, a sense of grim reality hung over the heart of Russia...
...Full-steaming into the funnel's neck, Rommel hesitated, then massed his forces and launched them at El Alamein. Thirteen of his Stukas, dive-bombing the British guns, were crumpled by fighters from South Africa, and the guns kept firing. Meanwhile, from the south a British light force sped around to harry Rommel's flank. After eleven successive days of relentless attack, Rommel's weary battalions had to withdraw to reform and prepare for a new attack...
Happiest member of the Class of 1946 yesterday was Radford Brokaw of Dunellen, New Jersey, who sped through the rigamarole of registration faster than any other Freshman and so won for himself a free subscription to the CRIMSON...
...citizens and 120 Latin Americans from concentration points in Germany. Hungry, dirty, bedraggled, they were impressed by the blow to German morale that the U.S. entry into the war had caused; cheered by briefly caught evidences of goodwill among French peasants. In a field, as their train sped past, a lone man had stood merrily waving the Stars & Stripes...