Word: sped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They had wanted something up the stairs a month ago," he said. He said that the Levesque's request did not stem from the April 16 accident but would not say whether the boy's fall may have sped work to place a temporary barrier on the Quincy stairway. Coming up with a permanent solution will be the house office's decision, Christiano said...
...State Trooper Robert Cieplensky, the motorist at a rest area along the New Jersey Turnpike acted strangely. He circled his car several times, peered under it and into several trash cans. Then, apparently sighting the police car, he sped recklessly away. The officer flashed his warning lights, and the driver stopped. Looking into the auto, Cieplensky spotted six canisters protruding from a nylon flight bag on the back seat. Some were labeled BLACK POWDER. The trooper was even more astonished at what he found on the floor: three high-power pipe bombs contained in red fire-extinguisher cases...
...brown Volvo blocked the road. Gunmen leaped from the car and dragged out the station wagon's lone passenger: U.S. Marine Lieut. Colonel William Higgins, 43, the leader of a 76-man observer group attached to the U.N. Interim Force. The attackers forced him into the Volvo and sped off. That abduction last week brought to nine the number of American hostages in Lebanon...
CONCORD, N.H.--Vice President George Bush sped past Sen. Bob Dole (R.-Kan.) in New Hampshire's Republican presidential primary yesterday, while Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis won the Democratic contest handily...
...destroyers steaming 3 1/2 miles southeast of Iran's Rashadat oil-loading platforms in the Persian Gulf. The Iranians did not reply, but within minutes 20 to 30 men were seen scrambling off the facility, situated 75 miles off the Iranian coast, and into a small boat that sped north toward Lavan Island. The warships -- the U.S.S. Hoel, John Young, Leftwich and Kidd -- then poured 1,065 rounds of 5-in. shells onto the two platforms. When the blasting was over, the structures had been reduced to twisted, flaming hulks...