Word: sped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scrap was in the battle's second phase. At Army Air Forces fields, bomber crews sprinted from their huts, swung into parachute harness. "This is it," airmen called as they climbed in. "This is it." ground crews agreed as the bombers became light-footed on the runways and sped into...
...secret airfield in Australia, airplane engines roared and a flight of pursuit ships sped out of a swirl of dust to take the air. One, a little too close, was caught in the slipstream of a ship ahead. It went out of control, screamed off the runway, ripped the motors off a parked plane, bounced off a jeep and crashed beyond in a group of khaki-clad men. The injured pilot was carried off the field crying "See what I did, see what...
...shifted the Vichy Government to Paris. At any rate, Laval was arrested and imprisoned in his chateau at Chatel-don (the man who arrested him was Marcel Peyrouton, who last week resigned as Vichy's Ambassador to Argentina). Next day Otto Abetz, the German ruler of Occupied France, sped to Vichy in a huge Mercedes mounting two machine guns, demanded and got Laval's release. Then & there began the German pressuring for Laval's restoration which culminated last week...
...President had delegated his powers widely through Washington. There might be bottlenecks, but not at the White House. For a change-and for a time-he was not overburdened. Since Pearl Harbor he had sped up daytime work so that he now averaged only one night's work a week...
...dash, was catching his wind while his supplies came up. Another, fighting through the winter in the greatest battle of history, had dredged his high schools for new soldiers and scraped the bottom of factories and food stores for their supplies. In Easter week, while the United Nations sped over vast distances to meet them, they were about ready to strike. In the long run, the best job of logistics would...