Word: sped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was the additional problem of getting the film to New York City. A French-made Gazelle helicopter and two Yugoslav pilots sped the film from the slopes where the skiing events were held to the Sarajevo airport, 20 miles away. There a courier took the film on a chartered Learjet to London and by Concorde to New York City. One day the airport was closed, so Frey and TIME's Yugoslav driver, Jovan Vučkoviċ, set off on a hair-raising ride over winding, snow-covered mountain roads to Mostar, 84 miles away, where the Learjet...
...alleged rape sped discussion and implementation of the security modifications, Epps explained, but added that the panel did not make the changes with "specific references" to the incident...
...televised speech that the truck "crashed through a series of barriers, including a chain-link fence and barbed-wire entanglements. Guards opened fire, but it was too late." A week later, Marine Commandant General Paul X. Kelley asserted that the truck slammed through the barbed wire at 60 m.p.h., sped past two armed sentries, burst through an iron gate and jumped over an 18-in. pipe before exploding...
...street, dead and injured shoppers lay crumpled beside torn bags spilling with holiday purchases. As firemen and ambulances sped to the scene, police closed off the area by stringing white plastic tape from lampposts. Across the side street where the blast occurred, Munna Malik, 33, had been serving customers in a clothing store near by when the explosion blew in the windows of his shop. He escaped through a rear fire exit and returned to the street, where he found three bodies and a dead dog beside the flaming remains of a car. Said Malik: "Only the legs...
...Hamburg judge turned down the formal request for a search warrant on grounds of insufficient evidence. As the deadline ticked closer, a three-member panel of the appeals court reviewed and finally reversed the earlier decision. Just seven minutes before the Elgaren was scheduled to lift anchor, anxious officials sped out to it in a launch and clambered aboard. They promptly ordered three 20-ft.-long containers to be hoisted by crane onto dry land. As the container ship headed toward Sweden several hours behind schedule, authorities opened the boxes. All their suspicions were confirmed: inside was a roomful...