Word: sped
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...tracking devices each carried went dead, possibly because the men ditched their heavy rucksacks so they could move unburdened, a U.S. official says. Within minutes of receiving the message, eight commandos and eight crewmen of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment piled into an MH-47 Chinook helicopter and sped out to help the trapped...
...Harvard College Curricular Review was supposed to have top billing on the Harvard marquee this year. After its launch in the fall of 2002, the review process sped ahead as the broad brushstrokes of a new curriculum were laid to canvas in the review’s first landmark report in April 2004. But the central motifs of that report—Harvard College Courses, a January-term (J-Term), internationalization, revamped advising, and scientific literacy, among others—left much to be desired. They were vaguely defined and lacked the inspiration of previous reviews which gave...
...which spent much of its dual season overcoming initial deficits off of the start, stayed even with both Washington and Princeton as the boats headed toward the midway mark. Cal seized a lead early in the second 500 meters and continued to increase the margin as all four crews sped to the 1000 meter mark...
...film continues in this vein for its first hour or so, jumping from scare to scare with a remarkable dexterity that never gets tired, due mainly to a refreshing filmic playfulness. It employs jump-cutting in bizarre places; a couple scenes are sped up for an enhanced psychological effect; and Nakata crafts images with foregrounded objects or bodies that seem disjointed in the frame—a subtle effect appropriate to the film’s tone...
...small breakthrough. Two captured rebels pointed the Marines to the location of a group of insurgents and an arms cache. Pantano's platoon set out for the targets, two large compound-style Iraqi houses, just off a highway. As the Marines approached one of the houses, a car sped away. The Marines shot out the tires, and Pantano arrived with his command element--a Navy corpsman and a radio operator--to check...