Word: sped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prize possession, a souped-up 1949 Ford. The message went out too late. Four hours earlier the couple, in blue jeans and jackets, drove into a service station on Highway 77, bought 45? worth of gas, a box of .410 shotgun shells and two boxes of .225. They sped on toward the farming hamlet of Bennet (pop. 350), 16 miles southeast of Lincoln. Starkweather needed a hideout, knew that two miles outside Bennet nestled the neat white farmhouse of 70-year-old August Meyer, an old family friend who occasionally allowed the Starkweathers to hunt on his property...
Yelling, shouting and shooting at nothing in particular, the Indians struck their cheerful terror until a plain-clothes deputy tossed a tear-gas bomb into the mob; then braves and Klansmen alike scattered. Soon state troopers sped into the field and disarmed them all. Happily the Lumbees jogged home, certain that the race-baiting bunch of newcomers to American soil would not mess around much more with Americans of a different brand...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 19--Moon-watch scientists tonight reported an official sighting of Sputnik II, Russia's dog-satellite, as it sped around the earth some 400 miles in space...
...granddaughter Susan's sixth birthday and a quiet New Year's Eve gathering with the John Eisenhowers, the Jim Hagertys, Farm Manager Arthur Nevins and Mrs. Nevins). But, as usual, there were final details to be decided. To Gettysburg came couriers carrying freshly typed drafts; back they sped to Washington, with here and there a penciled Eisenhower notation. Occasionally along the road the couriers passed higher-level visitors inbound to the farm. The week's first: Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Marion Folsom, who came for final approval of HEW's four-year plan...
...Quickly, Dulles put in a call to the U.S. residency, told Ike that the other heads of government were there, and that there was a feeling of deep concern. Without more ado, Ike clapped on his hat, climbed into his car, and with ten motorcycle policemen leading the way, sped to the Palais. Shortly after he arrived, 42 minutes late, he got the welcome news that the Atlas ICBM had been fired successfully...