Word: sped
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...walking with a young female cousin when Uday, cruising in his car, spotted her and ordered his guards to snatch her for his evening's entertainment, as is his notorious practice. Abu Harith fended them off. That night Uday's thugs grabbed him at his house and sped him to Uday's farm, where he says he was tied to a palm tree for two days and repeatedly beaten. Uday branded him with a hot iron on his back and shoulder. Then one of the guards injected Abu Harith's arm with something that hurt; he still has a lump...
After summarizing her motorcycle biography—which felt more like a camouflaged warning or a “proceed at your own risk” disclaimer—Stith motioned for me to hop onto the back seat of her Suzuki, and we sped up Plympton Street, first to Somerville and then on to Boston...
...made our move at 1000 [meters],” said Hugo Mallinson, the seven seat. “We sped away and finished the race about three lengths ahead...
...immediately set out to reshape the sport in his own image. In an attempt to make chess more sponsor friendly, he compressed the traditional two-year championship schedule into a more dramatic three-week tournament. He sweetened the pot with liberal infusions of cash from his deep pockets and sped up the game clock, discarding the time-honored classical chess format, in which players spend hours elaborating intricate moves, in favor of rapid chess, an adrenalized variant in which each game lasts just 50 minutes. "Chess had to be commercialized. Investment had to be brought in," Ilyumzhinov insists. That must...
...were strengthened in the early '90s when it noticed an increase in the number of oncology positions listed in help-wanted ads run by its competitor in trade papers. Bristol-Myers Squibb had also told financial analysts it was investing more money in its oncology unit. In response, SmithKline sped up its own cancer research to avoid being muscled out of the market...