Word: sped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sped East the Republican nominee, still learning, changed tactics sharply. He dropped his heated denunciations of Franklin Roosevelt. But he roasted the men around the President as unscrupulous, cynical schemers, intelligentsia, disbelievers in democracy, anxious to hold on to their power. This kind of talk went well everywhere, in Democratic and Republican territory alike. Mr. Willkie had discovered an open secret: the only popular New Dealer is Franklin Roosevelt...
...woman, Mary Foley, nursemaid in the home of wealthy Count Marc de Tristan, had been taking three-year-old Marc Jr. for a walk when a car drove up beside them. A black-a-vised, beak-nosed man leaped out, grabbed Marc, slugged her when she fought him, sped off with the child towards San Mateo...
...Atlantic. Although Marshal Pétain's Vichy Government has severed relations with Britain, and a British fleet in Oran Bay attacked and destroyed part of a French squadron last July, no gun fired on these French warships. They steamed confidently by Britain's scowling fortress, and sped...
...House approved and sent to the Senate legislation appropriating $338,000,000 for housing conscript troops. The army sped production of forms for registration of conscripts and selection of officers to guide their training. Other developments included...
...troop traffic which the Haiphong-Kunming railway might carry if Indo-China should by any chance allow troops to cross her territory. Merchants arrived lugging the Oriental equivalents of carpetbags. Three destroyers lay off the port of Haiphong. A large fleet, including no less than 18 troop transports, sped South Seawards from Formosa, destination unknown but possibly to help supervise traffic through Indo-China. Japanese closed the French-leased South China port of Kwangchowan, 150 miles from Indo-China...