Word: sped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pace at which Roosevelt sped throughcollege was also manifest in his personal life. Hemarried his first wife in September 1978, just afew months after his college graduation...
...sampling a native version of Quark's QuarkXPress' 3.3, I found that while such functions as "search" and "replace" sped through large documents, more graphics-intensive operations seemed to be bottle-necked by limitations in video hardware (though the Power Macs do offer unusually flexible built-in video display options...
...South Africans will be allowed to vote, is under way -- four years after Mandela's release from prison. Although his message of hope has been blurred by threats of violence, the election does not seem to be in serious jeopardy. As the 75- year-old leader of the A.N.C. sped from stadium to stadium in his cream- colored Mercedes, he gave clenched-fist salutes and spoke solemnly to the faithful. His tones were alternately regal and schoolmasterish, his jokes slow to develop, and much of his dry but earnest text came straight out of a yellow-and-white binder labeled...
...started at 7:45 a.m. at the White Hen Pantry in Porter Square, where Crimson reporter met Crimson photographer for the cold walk down Massachusetts Avenue to Saint John the Evangelist Church in North Cambridge. On the way, a Boston Police Bomb Squad van sped by, followed closely by two squad cars...
...scorn for the deadline before it had even passed, members of Islamic Jihad, an extremist Muslim fundamentalist group, decided to deploy a weapon only recently borrowed from Muslim radicals elsewhere -- the suicide car bomber. So early Monday morning at a highway intersection just outside the Gaza City limits, Aziz sped the ambulance toward an Israeli patrol. The soldiers opened fire, and the bullets ignited canisters of propane that Aziz had packed inside the auto. Three Israelis were slightly wounded...