Word: sped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposal sped through the House with strong support from the leaders of both parties and an endorsement from President Bush, passing by a vote of 252 to 174. A slight majority of Republicans voting opposed the bill despite Bush's stance...
...stoplight two blocks from the government-owned Inravision studios, a man waiting on a red Suzuki motorcyle dismounted and opened fire. Bullets from a 9-mm Ingram submachine gun hit Pulido in the throat and shoulder and struck Godoy in the leg. The gunman and an accomplice sped off on the motorcycle, as a passerby drove the victims to the hospital. By week's end Godoy was in stable condition, but Pulido, who lost a lung and suffered heart damage, remained on the critical list...
Before he left home, Bush wrote Mikhail Gorbachev that his trip was not designed to stir up trouble in the Soviets' backyard. "Winners, losers -- that's not what this is about," he insisted on Air Force One, as he sped toward Warsaw...
Some protesters held fast, fighting with rocks and Molotov cocktails. Near a hotel entrance, a group of demonstrators saw two soldiers kill a civilian, then pounced on the pair and beat them to death. An armored personnel carrier that had sped into the square half an hour before the main assault was blocked by a barricade of bicycle racks. Protesters mummified the APC in banners and cloth, then set it ablaze with Molotov cocktails, trapping its crew of eight or nine soldiers...
...Ford, his white guayabera drenched with his bodyguard's blood and with television cameras whirring, tried to stumble away, two of the attackers lifted their clubs and methodically struck him again and again. Only the intercession of a PDF officer, who hustled Ford into a car and sped away, saved the white-haired candidate from what might have been a fatal mauling...