Word: spedding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...been waiting for this moment for days or, in my case, a lifetime, and the deliciously deserted road beckoned. The Charger, rescued from a junkyard a decade ago and painted "Richard Petty blue," roared off when the light changed. It hit 100 m.p.h. with ease and sped toward the vanishing point down Highway...
...public retirement home in suburban Paris tended to the 80 residents with ice packs, wet towels and fluids to help them survive the suffocating heat in the home, which, like most French retirement homes, is not air-conditioned. Three residents died during the heat wave - deaths sped by high temperatures, not staff negligence. "They knew exactly what to do to make sure [we] came through fine," says De Noinville. "Not everyone was so lucky." As death toll estimates in France soared from 2,000 on Aug. 14 to as high as 13,400 last week - geometrically higher than anywhere else...
Abbas, 58, was standing last week in an alley a block from his house in Samarra, 20 miles south of Tikrit, when two men with red scarves wrapped around their heads turned the corner on a black Jawa motorcycle. One of them shot Abbas in the leg and sped off. Abbas lay bleeding in the alley for an hour until an ambulance arrived. None of his neighbors went to his aid. "They were frightened," he said later from his hospital bed, his right leg bandaged up to his waist, "that maybe they would be the next on the list...
...opposite end of the spectrum are students like Gretchen R. Passe ’03, who have sped through their college career in three years...
...other residential areas. Four miles away, at a complex that housed dozens of Americans employed by Vinnell Corp. to help train the Saudi National Guard, a pair of cars were on a deadly mission. The first, a Ford Crown Victoria sedan filled with terrorists armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles, sped up to the compound's security checkpoint. The men mowed down the guards and removed a 3-ft.-high steel barrier...