Word: sped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Racing Driver Bob Wilder, 32, gunned his English-built Oldsmobile-Allard out of the short curve, tires screeching, and sped on toward the little hump-backed bridge. Driver Wilder, a veteran of sport-car racing, knew what to expect at the crest of the bridge: a brief, soaring pitch with all four wheels off the ground, then a jolt as the car settled to the roadway again-then a strong foot on the gas for the next hill. But Driver Wilder never made the hill. His Allard smacked down askew on the roadway, veered, skidded up a bank and turned...
...little red pennant announcing "get out of the way" to other scullers was fastened to the bow of his shell. He sped away, and soon returned, racing madly to the dock, only to find his time was thirty minutes and one second...
Putters & Roars. The smaller classes started first. Italian Fiats ("Little Mice"), French Panhards and Renaults whizzed off the elevated starting platform at 30-sec. intervals and sped away. The din shifted from putters to roars as the bigger cars streaked off in their turn. One entrant who made a rather slow start was Moviemaker...
...soon as the X-3 was on the runway, the elaborate paraphernalia of modern flight-testing began to unroll around it. Fire trucks sped off and took up stations at one-mile intervals along the eight-mile runway. Two ambulances took positions in the ominous line. Two F-86 Sabre jets, a photographic and an observer plane, took off, blowing clouds of dust across the field. Another F-86 already in the air circled the field and landed. Its pilot was the Air Force's Major "Chuck" Yeager (TIME, April 18, 1949), the first man to fly faster than...
...station he struck a smiling pose for photographers, carefully hiding his right arm. Someone said: "How do you feel?" Said Thorez: "Very well, you see." He was helped into a black Delahaye limousine and stretched out on the back seat, his back propped up on pillows. The Delahaye sped off. He could not be found in his house at Choisy-le-Roi, but the car turned up. Said the chauffeur: "He is very tired...