Word: sped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crawl on his hands and knees from the bottom to the top of the Spanish hill called Cerro de Los Angeles. At last the Constellation seemed to hover for a moment over the runway; then it touched and skidded, screaming and careening, while a U.S. Air Force crash truck sped alongside ready to spray it with a flame-extinguishing foam...
...Next day Clarence House officially announced that "no announcement concerning Princess Margaret's future is at present contemplated." and urged the press "to extend to Her Royal Highness their customary courtesy in respecting her privacy." But hot on the heels of this announcement, the Princess and the Commoner sped off for a weekend in the country, traveling separately but meeting at the Wills's vast, parklike estate in Berkshire. Hordes of newsmen and photographers collected outside its wrought-iron gates. Desperate for news, they moved in hungrily on the only source at hand, seven-year-old Marilyn Wills...
Died. James Dean, 24, most promising young cinemactor of 1955 (East of Eden) ; in a collision as he sped along a darkening highway in his silver Porsche Spyder sports car to enter a road race one week after he completed work in a new film, Giant; near Paso Robles, Calif...
Near the half of Saturday's game, an undergraduate stole over to the University of Massachusetts stands. Quickly, he grabbed a large sign proclaiming "Crush Harvard," sped to the home side, and before the UMass fans could react, virtually demolished...
...Turkish consulate in Salonika, Greece's second largest city, and broke a single pane of glass at the modest house near by where the late great Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, had been born to a minor official of the Ottoman Empire. As reports of the incident sped across the Aegean Sea, they became wildly embellished in the Istanbul headlines. Soon thousands of angry Turks were surging through the streets, bent on destroying stores run by Istanbul's Greek-speaking minority. The rioters shattered shop windows, tore down steel shutters, littered the pavement with heaps of merchandise...