Word: sped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bizarre ending for this eldest son of an Albanian immigrant who had become a Chicago restaurateur. (Another son, Jim, followed his brother into revue and TV comedy.) Always restless and volatile, John sped through a typical Midwestern youth: football, rock-band drummer high school high jinks, a brief spell at the University of Michigan. Later, he married (and stayed married to) his high school sweetheart, Judith Jacklin. In the early '70s he joined Chicago's Second City troupe, and after playing in a Manhattan revue, National Lampoon's Lemmings, was hired...
...private" dinner late Saturday night in his Politburo office in the Kremlin. Never mind that we had just eaten?a social invitation by the General Secretary could not be refused. Our minds addled by a 15-hour plane trip and our bellies distended by a Russian dinner, we sped to the Kremlin. Brezhnev received us in what looked like a Churchill jumpsuit in sky blue. He did not neglect to remind me that...
...Aswan I sped to Sadat's rest house. "Welcome, Henry," he greeted me; his use of my first name was new. In his study he signed the U.S. proposal defining the limitations of armaments behind both lines. I then handed him a letter from Golda, which said in part: "Peace is the goal toward which we must direct all our energies. Let me reiterate what you said in your message: When I talk of permanent peace, between us, I mean...
Dixon sparked the Crimson comeback by leading the transition game. The supersonic senior sped to 10 of Harvard's 18 comeback points and dished off for several others. Harvard didn't waste the Minutemen's 19 turnovers, scoring 24 points off UMass miscues...
...Marxist-dominated Sandinista government. When the shooting stopped at least eight Indians were dead, according to sketchy local reports, and the Honduran government was enraged at a clear violation of its borders by the Sandinista forces. The ill-equipped Honduran army went on full alert, Honduran troops sped to the trouble zone, and the foreign ministry angrily berated Nicaragua...