Word: sped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Norway. Back at Lake Placid this week, Norway unveiled a new batch of jumpers for the prime show of winter sport: the individual jumping championships. Forty contestants in all sped down the runway, soared off the lip of the tower and jackknifed forward in the long dive into space. When it was all over, Norway had done it again; six of the first eight places had gone to Norwegians. The champ: a 21-year-old Norwegian farmer, Hans Björnstad, who made jumps of 224 and 223 ft. Sixth place went to former U.S. Amateur Champion Artie Devlin...
...many crowded up on the stage for a few words with Mrs. Roosevelt. The rest pushed their way out through the narrow doors. Outside those who had been waiting caught a glimpse of Mrs. Roosevelt as she walked down the steps and climbed into the blue convertible which sped away toward Quincy Street...
...York's Idlewild Airport on a sunny morning sped Charles Luckman, 40, the hustling, $300,000-a-year president of Lever Bros. There, a sleek Constellation rolled to a halt and from it stepped his two bosses, who also happen to be two of the world's most potent tycoons-pipe-smoking Sir Geoffrey Heyworth, boss of Britain's Lever Brothers & Unilever, Ltd., and Paul Rykens, boss of Holland's Lever Brothers & Unilever N.V. Between them, Sir Geoffrey and Rykens run the globe-girdling Lever soap empire with some 500 subsidiaries in over 40 countries...