Word: sped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure that people would know about "the way of death" by staging machine gun executions on the paddyfields, and sending through the streets open wagons bearing people bound hand and foot. Then one spring night in 1951 the sirens wailed in Shanghai, and all night long the police wagons sped about the city. Next morning there was nothing in the newspapers to indicate what had happened, but as people began checking with friends, horror spread through Shanghai: it was reckoned that 100,000 people had been arrested that night. Presumably, most of them were people who had chosen...
...about 1 a.m. when the car stopped at a deserted spot in Lincoln, Mass., and then sped away, leaving behind a youth of 18. For Freshman Thomas Clark of M.I.T., this was the last part of his initiation into the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Like nine other pledges who had been deposited about the countryside, he was left alone to get back to the M.I.T. campus, 14 miles away, as best he could, by 8 o'clock the next morning. But when morning came, Tom Clark had still not returned from what the Dekes call the "One-way ride...
...chant "Hey, hey, ho, ho. Autherine must go." At the end of class Dean of Women Sarah L. Healy and Carmichael's assistant, Jefferson Bennett, led Autherine out a back door to a waiting car. The mob spotted them, began throwing eggs and stones as the car sped off to Bibb Graves Hall for Autherine's next class (children's literature). Autherine had to use a back door once again, but the crowd kept pelting the car with rocks, shouting at Bennett, "Kill him! Kill him!" Says Autherine: "After that class I was not permitted to leave...
...ascertaining that the Norwegian fishermen were in port, in keeping with the Norwegian law which forbids fishing on Sundays, a fleet of some 60 Soviet boats followed a shoal of herring inside Norway's four-mile limit and let down their purse nets off Aalesund. A police cruiser sped out to chase the trespassers. When the Russian boat captains could not or would not understand, a shoal of small warships of the Norwegian navy steamed out. Two Russian boats tried to get away; a machine gun sputtered, and the boats hove to. Norwegians climbed aboard four small boats...
...Russians were not cowed. The rest of the Soviet fleet moved in and dipped nets into Norwegian waters. The warships sped out again, fired a few more shots across Russian bows, steamed resolutely back to port with another 10 ships, including the 7,000-ton Tambov, the Soviet fleet's mother ship. While 800 Soviet crewmen-relieved to get ashore after being cooped up for four months aboard ship-loafed and chatted with the people of Aalesund, Norwegian authorities got two of the 15 skippers to admit they had been poaching, then fired off a strong protest to Moscow...