Word: sped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hasty Heart. In Kingston, Jamaica, impatient because his fiancee's illness had delayed their marriage, Attorney Justin Colin forced his way into the hospital, rushed his prospective bride to his car, sped 60 miles to Mandeville for a quick wedding, seven hours later was arrested on an assault charge...
Down Sadovaya Boulevard, a wide, busy thoroughfare in north Moscow, sped a detachment of Soviet tanks and truckloads of soldiers. The time was 5 p.m., the day June 27. Such sights are rare in Moscow, and foreign diplomats noted the movement with interest...
Wildly cheered on by some 6,000 fellow townsmen, including his parents and sister, versatile Milt alternately sped and powerhoused his graceful bulk through the decathlon's exacting tests. He sprinted the fastest 100-meter dash of his life (10.5), and also took first in the 400-meter run, high jump and shot-put. Going into the second day with a big 717-point lead, Milt won the 110-meter high hurdles by nearly a second in 14.3, later loped heavy-footed through the 1,500-meter run to pick up a final 134 points...
...Break. News of the decisive break at Panmunjom clacked onto a Pentagon teletype machine in the small hours of Thursday morning. By 9 a.m. the official report from Tokyo had been sped by courier across the Potomac to State's Office of Far Eastern Affairs. There, Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson studied the message, then hurried word up two floors above to Secretary Dulles, who relayed the word to the White House. Before the day was out, a wave of truce optimism spread from Washington to U.N. headquarters, and on to the capitals of the West...
...Gimmick. At Universal, Bossman Bill Goetz put his shops to work 20 hours a day on a 3-D camera, then sped into production on a work he felt was suited to the new medium: It Came from Outer Space. Fox announced three pictures to be made in 3-D, and Metro declared...