Word: sped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between Sofia and Bucharest a commuter sped last week-heavy Victor Cadere, Rumanian Ambassador to Yugoslavia, close friend of King Carol II. He was chosen to negotiate the Bulgarian claims because as Ambassador to Belgrade he had earned the warm friendship of the then Bulgarian Ambassador, Ivan Popoff, who is now Bulgaria's Foreign Minister. From Popoff to his King, from King to Popoff, Ambassador Cadere went, now with a warning, now with a concession, begging the retention of the important city of Silistra, asking reparations for public works. At a moment when Rumania seemed to stiffen, Hungary ominously...
Last week one of the strangest and most moving contests in history sped to an unrecorded climax. On one side was the speed and efficiency of Hitler's war machine, preparing for the destruction of Britain. On the other was the desperate attempt to save British children...
...water front startled Nazi sentries stumbled to the defense, fell before the surprise attack of a British landing party perfectly coordinated with the assault from the air. As quickly as they had come the airmen pulled out and sped away, the raiders vanished. In broad daylight, all up & down the coast English soldiers, sailors & airmen stabbed the German-held shore line in a series of lightning sorties...
...Nazaire, fresh units of a new British Expeditionary Force, a "broomstick Army," began pouring in, true to British promise. Some were veterans of the ill-starred expedition to Norway. Some were survivors of the retreat to Dunkirk. As fast as their meagre equipment got ashore, these latecomers sped across Normandy and Poitou to meet the German tide. Those who had seen him before, even more than those who had not, longed for a crack at "Jerry." But by the time that the new B. E. F.-little but the best that Britain had to offer -reached the front, the front...
...Safely to New York harbor after a secret race across the Atlantic sped the largest ship afloat...