Word: sped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lone Spitfire sped down into a pack of Messerschmitts and knocked down two of them. Then something hit the Spitfire...
...belonged to an art-loving Moscow grain merchant named Serge Stchoukine. When the magnate's daughter Irene Stchoukine, who now lives in Paris, started legal proceedings to get back what she considers her rightful inheritance, the Iron Curtain clanged down. One day last week a little black truck sped up to the gallery door, loaded all the disputed Picassos aboard and whisked them off to the Soviet embassy. There, the paintings were back on Soviet soil, where Heiress Stchoukine has no more chance of collecting than a Czarist bond holder...
Zouzou slammed down the phone, swept furiously out of the palace, got into the Cadillac and sped toward Alexandria at 75 m.p.h. Behind her, startled MPs phoned check points and organized pursuit. At the Kilometer 10 checkpoint, a scared soldier halted Zouzou...
Exercise boys hunched over the withers or, if they trusted the animals beneath them, stood high in the stirrups. A Cuban jockey sped by, crooning to his horse in Spanish. A steeplechase jock eased past on a chestnut jumper. A skittish, short-backed filly began to act up, slogging at the bit and trying to turn back up the track. Her jockey cursed: "You crummy pig. You're going back to the bull rings...
...Nancy Cissel, 12, of Silver Spring, Md., spotted a boy in the path of an onrushing car, dashed into the street and pulled him to safety. Nancy was obviously just in time: as the car sped by, it tore her sleeve...