Word: sped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Navarre's proudest exploit in those delicate days when the French were Germany's captives came later, when he openly radioed information on German sea movements to the British on Malta, then sat back to await the fireworks. R.A.F. squadrons sped west from Malta and in minutes destroyed two-thirds of the 15th Panzer Division, destined for Rommel's Afrika Korps. Admiral Darlan got wind of this feat and sent Navarre to Vichy, where he was kept under surveillance. He soon escaped into the underground-thanks to a guard who became his friend (and later became...
...Disturb. In the last hours of the campaign, no concern showed on the stern, creased face of the 77-year-old man who had piloted West Germany from chaos to prosperity, from defeat to respectability and alliance with the democracies of the West. He sped coolly through the last campaign stops, and then, on the day before election, retired to his garden on the banks of the Rhine and sent out orders to his party aides not to disturb him that night, nor on the next night when the election returns came...
...armada of some 40 warships-U.S., British, Israeli, Greek, French and Italian -sped to the rescue, while new but lesser tremors continued to shake the islands. Said the commander of the British destroyer Daring: "We could feel the ship shaking, as if distant depth charges were being dropped." The U.S. cruiser Salem, flagship of the Sixth Fleet, put a team of doctors and medical aides ashore. They reported: "The silence is broken only by the cries of the injured, and the crunch beneath the shoes of the stretcher bearers." Said Earl Mountbattan of Burma, NATO Mediterranean commander: "Cephalonia looks...
Every day last week, approximately 400 U.N. prisoners arrived at Panmun jom and, by helicopter, truck and ambulance, were sped back to Freedom Village near Munsan. Some of the survivors of Communist prison camps were healthy, robust men, who grinned, waved and danced on the gravel path to the receiving tents. Some could not dance, because they were emaciated or had only one leg. Others were litter cases, undernourished or sick with tuberculosis or dysentery...
...evening last week a plumpish little five-year-old pacer named Hi-Lo's Forbes sped around Baltimore Raceway to win its $10,000 Special Invitational free-for-all pace. The horse was one-tenth of a second off the track record, but in June at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway he had set his own world mark for the mile (1:58 1/5). After such a triumph, his owner might properly have gone on a nightlong celebration. Instead, hefty Earl Wagner, 35, grabbed the first plane ride of his life to hurry back to his home...