Word: sped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vistaed hopes I sped; And shot, precipitated, Adown Titanic glooms of chasm...
...minutes later. Augusta had not had a full day of sunshine since Feb. 18, but as the Columbine squared away for her landing, the sun burst through the clouds. There were still puddles of water on the airport ramp and on the highway as the Eisenhower car sped out to the Golf Club, zipped up the magnolia-lined driveway and came to a stop in front of the little (two-bedroom) white clapboard, green-shuttered "Bobby Jones" cottage...
Communications were sped up and some hard production problems were licked in 1952. New direct radio-teletype circuits, called Telex, were installed between New York City and London, New York and Paris, and London and Paris. TIME's pre-convention issue, for which the final writing and editing was finished on Monday night, went on sale in Chicago on Tuesday morning, in time for delegates to pick up copies which described what they had done the evening before...
When the committee closed down for the weekend, McCarthy was not yet done with the Voice. But already the hearings had sped the departure of Wilson Compton, head of State's International Information Administration, which includes the Voice. Onetime president of the State College of Washington, Dr. Compton* took over the I.I.A. a year ago, and proved to be no great shakes as an administrator. His own testimony before the committee showed amazingly little detailed knowledge of what was going on in the Voice. On the third day of the hearings, Secretary Dulles accepted Compton's resignation. Reported...
...that they were "most anxious to trace him." It was not hard. Soon afterward he checked into Rome's Hotel Excelsior as Horace Albert Hall. He stayed only long enough (a week) to woo and win a pretty young Italian widow, then left her in the lurch and sped...