Word: sped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nick. In Franklin, Ky., police got a telephone distress call to hurry "out to my house because something awful is about to happen," sped to the address, found, crouched behind the sofa, Billy Kratzert, 4, who pointed a trembling finger at his baby sitter, said: "She was going to spank...
...enough to set records all week long in practice runs, but they were not sturdy enough to run so fast so long. In the race itself, the Italians screeched in and out of the pits, getting their cars patched up like overage family jalopies, while five D-type Jaguars sped steadily along, their sturdiness more than making up for their slightly slower speeds. After the first twelve hours, all four first positions belonged to the Jags...
Bandleader Starways, Singer Carmen Ramos and six others were killed outright. Among the 70 injured was a 19-year-old girl who had both legs blown off. Far into the night, ambulances sped back and forth to the hospitals, their sirens wailing in the deathlike silence of the curfewed city. Coming at the end of a week of Moslem rebel terror that had already taken the lives of 16 Europeans and wounded more than 150, the outrage at the Casino de la Corniche was more than most French could stand...
Past the mint-and custard-colored roofs of Pnompenh's lacquered palaces, a black Lincoln limousine sped south, bound for the rambling Cambodian seaside resort of Kep, 90 miles away by the green waters of the Gulf of Siam. Inside the big car, lonely and unhappy, sat cherub-faced Norodom Sihanouk, who gave up his throne to serve as Premier and had already resigned the premiership three times in less than two years. Behind him in Pnompenh Prince Sihanouk left with his father, King Suramarit, a statement of his intention to resign for the fourth time...
Flustered Nationalist officials, obviously unprepared for the outburst, finally called out troops. From his mountain retreat at Sun Moon Lake in central Formosa, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek sped north to Taipei, called out a total of 33,000 troops, placed Taipei under martial law, imposed strict curfew regulations. Total estimated casualties: at least two Chinese killed, nine Americans injured, one seriously...