Word: sped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dressed in blue jeans, an old shirt, and red loafers, Agatha looked quite real and quite dead. Passers-by took the corpse as a Halloween prank. The Moors girls merely smiled, muttered strange incantations, and sped off on their broomsticks...
...four dramatic new buildings replacing the squalid hodgepodge of the capital's old Lagunilla Market. Starting strong, Ruiz Cortines came smiling through a confetti shower, visited each of the buildings, with a mariachi band blaring along behind. The President took a quick look at three other markets, sped through the city to dedicate a four-lane freeway crossing the city, flitted through the gleaming new laboratories of police headquarters, took an approving brief glance at the new dormitories and gymnasium of the fire-department annex, popped over to the new penitentiary...
Twenty minutes after the President arrived at a farewell party for retiring Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, an aide passed him a message. Ike beckoned to Mamie. "What-another crisis?" she asked. "The same one," he replied. The President sped downtown to his office in the White House, conferred with Attorney General Herbert Brownell, pored over a press association Teletype copy that lay before him. "Well," said Ike, "I guess we've still got this problem with...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9--Sputnik sped around the world on a steady course today, speaking to earthbound scientists with a strong new radio voice...
...Wednesday, combat-ready paratroopers lined the two blocks of Park Avenue in front of the school, stood with fixed bayonets on corners a block away in each direction. Radio patrol jeeps sped back and forth. A walkie-talkie crackled: "Hello Defiance, this is Crossroads Six." A crowd began gathering a block east of the school, where "Roadblock Alpha" had been thrown up at an intersection. Major James Meyers, a thin, hard man with the glint of a hawk in his eyes, ordered up a sound truck. "Please return to your homes," said he, "or it will be necessary...