Word: sped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Force One landed at Orly Airport near Paris a few minutes before midnight on a rainy Wednesday. Nancy held an umbrella over the President as they trod a soggy red carpet, to be greeted by French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson. It was not a night for ceremony. The Reagans sped off to the residence of U.S. Ambassador Evan Galbraith to recuperate from jet lag and prepare for the first serious task: cementing Reagan's friendship with French President François Mitterrand, his host at the Versailles summit...
Because of the tight security, it was almost the only occasion that enabled the French public to get a glimpse of Reagan. He waved through the tinted glass of his Lincoln at a crowd of 2,000 lining the Avenue Victoria as his motorcade sped away from the meeting with Chirac. One reason for the heavy precautions: that morning a bomb had exploded at the American School of Paris, located in the suburb of Saint-Cloud. There were no injuries. On the school's wall was inscribed the legend ACTION DIRECTE, the name of an outlawed ultraleft organization...
...home to their apartment in a Cincinnati suburb one evening last October when two young men stopped them, ostensibly to ask directions. Suddenly, the men grabbed Riethmiller and dragged her to a waiting van, squirting Mace in Thiemann's face to prevent her from following. As the van sped off, the terrified Riethmiller discovered that her father William was among her kidnapers. He recalls: "Stephanie looked up and I said, 'Hi, Stephanie.' And she said, 'Hi, Dad.' I said, 'Everything...
...Desert, gusting through communities south of Los Angeles at speeds topping 60 m.p.h. In Anaheim, just before dawn, the high winds blew down a power line, setting the fronds of a palm tree afire. Sparks showered onto the dry wooden shingles of a nearby rooftop, which exploded into flames. Sped by the winds, the sparks leaped from roof to roof, from street to street. For three hours, the fire raged out of control as residents in a four-block area of apartment complexes scrambled out of its path and fire-fighting units from neighboring towns helped battle the blaze...
With Jimmy Connors dynamoed-out, Roscoe Tanner permed-out, and Vitas Gerulaitis sped-out, Wimbledon hardly promises the stellar quality of tennis it has provided in the past two years. After all, Mac Attack was pressed to reveal his shot-making legerdemain because of the fierce competition provided by arch-rival Borg...