Word: sped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With 28 minutes left in the game, B C got its final tally of the evening on some miscommunication in the Harvard defense Intercepting a deep pass into the Crimson end Ricapito pushed the ball back to Coogan Anticipating the play, Toensing sped in and took the ball off the Crimson 'keep's feet and fired into the empty net for his second goal of the night...
...Beirut, headquarters for much of the Western press in Lebanon, after leaving his film with Halevy and Rubinger. Concerned that Phalangist roadblocks would prevent them from getting to Israel to transmit their reporting and film back to New York City, they tossed their suitcases into a rented car and sped out of East Beirut. They were in Israel only long enough to get their first round of work safely en route to TIME in New York before they were back in Beirut to cover Gemayel's funeral in Bikfaya and rejoin Photographer Frey in covering Lebanon...
...when a passenger in the car suddenly placed a .38-cal. pistol to the back of his head and fired a single shot. The Continental swung out of control and smashed into a parked car. The assassin jumped out and climbed into a trailing red Buick LeSabre, which then sped away. But the victim happened to be Nat Masselli, 31, son of Mobster William ("Billy the Butcher") Masselli, 55. And that made the hit something special...
Since the inaugural run, which was sped on its way by a 25-man band of the Coldstream Guards, the passenger list has included English lords and ladies, showbiz aristocrats and crowned heads of industry. One passenger this summer was Actor Sidney Poitier, with his 30 pieces of luggage. On a trip from Venice to Paris, a group of 14 Arabs celebrated the birthday of a Saudi princess; the Dom Perignon gushed like crude...
...Obie sped back to Washington on the Concorde last weekend, George Shultz began readjusting to the role of public power. He was given the honor of being the last to board the plane, waiting until even Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga had been seated. Two camera crews stumbled in the aisles as the chunky man with the healthy California tan took his place. And on the 3½-hr. flight, he conducted impromptu diplomacy, listening as Seaga urged faster progress on Reagan's plan for aid to the Caribbean Basin...