Word: sped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Covert Offensive. The incident that touched off last week's Gaza flare-up might have happened any day. Israeli soldiers, their command cars stacked with small arms, sped on routine border patrol close to an Egyptian command post. Suddenly there was shooting. Caught in the open without cover, the Israelis, guns blazing, crossed the border and took the command post. When they retired, they left three Egyptians dead...
Laughing Exit. Across the Potomac at Boiling Air Force Base that afternoon, the Pentagon sped Talbott's departure with one of the fanciest farewells in Washington's history. Hurricane Connie's approach cut the planned aerial fly-over from 150 planes to ten B-47 jet bombers, but three Cabinet members watched Wilson pin the Medal of Freedom on Talbott (for meritorious service), 1,800 troops paraded, and the Air Force Band played So Long, It's Been Good to Know...
While the financial branch of the auto business nervously chewed its fingernails in the back seat, automen in the driver's seat sped on to more production records, predicted that the total would reach 7.5 million cars this year, up a full 36% from 1954. With high wages and record employment, producers figure that U.S. workers can afford to go into debt. Only 9% of the nation's $266 billion disposable income goes into time payments, said a G.M. spokesman, but "14% or 15% with good credit would cause no damage...
Friday night, Sir Anthony Eden, who wanted some accomplishment to bring back to Britain, felt that the West was perhaps losing a chance to begin dismantling the cold war by locking German reunification so tightly to European security. He sped off to Bulganin's villa for dinner, finally talked Bulganin into accepting a statement admitting "the close link" between reunification of Germany and the problem of European security. And in this fashion the final communique was agreed upon...
...studio to his car, and was driven out past the Potomac to Washington's National Airport with Mrs. Eisenhower and their son, Major John, who was going to Geneva as his father's aide. From the roadside by the silver river, as the President's car sped by, there came a flurry of applause and cheers...