Word: sped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beneath grey skies and scudding black clouds, the dignitaries sped off downtown for what diplomats call a tour d'horizon, an overall review of common concerns. The President welcomed Eden on the White House steps. When the visitor asked: "How are you?" Ike, aware of big-eared reporters, cupped his hand and jokingly whispered his reply. During lunch (steak and apple pie). Britain's Eden remarked that the U.S. handling of Marshal Bulganin's request for a non-aggression pact (TIME, Feb. 6) had struck him as "admirable...
Called in by a London newspaper to investigate Parson Smith's complaints, Harry sped to Borley Rectory on June 12, 1929. Soon the old place began acting up as it never had before. Keys shot out of their keyholes like projectiles. Bells rang with no one to ring them. Pebbles and candlesticks hurtled through the air. Rappings and tappings sounded from all sides like a telegraphers' convention. Even the ghostly nun Marie put in a polite appearance in honor of the visitor. Altogether, wrote Price later, "it was a day to be remembered even by an experienced investigator...
Like a happy hot-rodder, the auto industry sped through 1955 leading the economy at a record clip. Last week, when the inevitable pause came, some, grown accustomed to the impossible, expressed alarm...
...Washington, Kubitschek found Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Treasury Secretary George Humphrey waiting at the airport. Sped to the Capitol behind a motorcycle escort, the visitor, 80 minutes late, found the House adjourned and half the Senate absent. With a translator's help, he delivered a seven-minute speech to the Senate, drew five rounds of applause. The U.S. and Brazil, he said, "share the same ideals, the same sentiments, the same respect for the paramount dignity...
...Indians piled their weight upon the Mercedes, it broke down. With police aid, the visitors pulled themselves clear of the clustering crowd and fought their way to a nearby police van. Behind them, the happy mob pulled the Mercedes apart. Safe at last from their frantic fans, the Russians sped on in the paddywagon to reach an official reception at Government House one hour late...