Word: sped
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...street, and the garbage collector was stepping back to his vehicle, the truck reached the earth-filled blast barriers around the barracks and embassy. According to an Iraqi guard at a nearby compound, the driver jumped from the cab of the truck, slipped into a waiting car and sped off. But most witnesses say he drove headlong into the defenses. When the truck hit, it exploded...
...Delays The planned resignations of three top execs from Irish state-owned carrier Aer Lingus, initially scheduled for May, were sped up amid reports they planned to launch a rival airline...
...like seeing the bear in the pattern of stars that make up Ursa Major. The crystallography technique was once used by legendary dna discoverers James Watson and Francis Crick. As Jhoti notes, "it took Watson and Crick over a decade just to image one dna molecule." Astex has sped up the process with a series of computer algorithms and hardware processes...
Wendell scored her second goal of the game on a play similar to Vaillancourt’s in which she managed to beat Harvard junior goalie Ali Boe. With the score tied 2-2, Wendell sped down the ice with the puck during a Crimson power play and deked to her left, then brought the puck around to her right and just past Boe’s outstretched left leg. The shorthanded goal was Wendell’s sixth of the season, and Minnesota’s 16th...
...opposite sex. Every woman I've asked has said no, often with an incredulous head-shake; every man has said yes. One fellow - we'll call him Steve - told me of a time he was driving across the Brooklyn Bridge and spotted a luscious woman on the walkway. He sped ahead, parked by a bench in a park just below the Bridge exit and sat there waiting for her, ready to make blithe conversation, as if he hadn't just executed an Earnhardt in hopes his impromptu romantic gambit would...