Word: sped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...torpedoes were fired, the submarine swung about and a torpedo fired from the stern tubes. After three minutes there was a loud explosion, followed by thundering columns of water and then by columns of fire. The harbor sprang into life. The destroyers in the anchorage were lit up. Cars sped along the highway. Directly opposite the submarine, a car stopped, turned around, and raced back toward town. Thinking the driver had seen him, Prien withdrew at full speed...
...week's end, Harry Truman, his family and 200 others boarded his special train, sped noisily off to Philadelphia for the "Army-Navy game. This year he sat on Navy's side, bobbed up & down in his box seat as Navy officers got between him and the play, stayed until the last play, the last whistle...
Varsity soccer players ran like complacent gentlemen Saturday and as a result Navy sped away with a 2 to 0 victory at the Business School Field. The less was the first for the Crimson in six games and virtually eliminated them from contention in the Ivy League. Simultaneously on the adjoining field Foley Gayda's Freshman forces handed Exeter its first loss in 16 games as they scored in the second and third periods...
...scoffed. There was not enough traffic in the small burgs, they said. Besides, on short hauls (Southwest's shortest hop is 22 miles, its longest only 115) planes would waste so much time on the ground that they would not be much faster than trains or buses. Southwest sped up its ground operations until now a DC-3 can discharge passengers, load new ones, and take off again only 90 seconds after it taxis to a stop (six extra minutes if it has to refuel). Southwest has trimmed the time by such tricks as keeping one engine running, dropping...
...hired 1935 Ford to have a look at the war between India and Hyderabad. The Indian army had undertaken a "police action" (which it also called a "mission of mercy") against Hyderabad, whose predominantly Hindu population was ruled by a stubborn Moslem Nizam. The would-be war correspondents sped 180 miles toward the front, found that the war was over by the time they got there. All in all, it had been one of the shortest, happiest wars ever seen. Cabled Lubar...