Word: spedding
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...Kekkonen, most delegations showed up on time-and by air. But not all. In mid-afternoon Kekkonen raced into town to the railway station to shake hands with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, who had chosen to make the 18-hour trip from Moscow by train. Then Kekkonen sped back to the airport (normally a 30-minute trip, but the President made it in 13) to continue the marathon ceremony...
...called through his bullhorn, and suddenly the boats surged ahead, followed closely by the launch. Parker stood majestically in the bow, his white shirt flapping in the breeze, his chiseled profile silhouetted against the now blue sky. He held his head high and watched closely as the two boats sped forward glancing occasionally at the silver stopwatch he held in his hand...
...soon the frisbee was retrieved and the eight was on the water--eight pairs of knees bending up, eight oars gliding through the water, eight bodies pulling back, the whole thing working like a smooth, strong precision machine. The boat sped up the Charles, leaving behind Jackie Zoch who had been told to go out on a pair this afternoon...
...Liners. Forestry officials estimate that Jones' experiments with various trees have sped the reforestation of Pennsylvania's spoil banks by at least 50 years, an achievement that has earned him a roomful of conservation and forestry awards. He shares his findings with anybody who wants them. Every year about 2,000 visitors-university agronomists, Government foresters and ordinary citizens-come to see his farm and meet the adman turned agrarian...
...toward Idaho to build a house--or so I heard from my travelling companions in the back--and it looked like a clear shot to Reno. The upper portion of the tail-gate was propped up and I thought maybe I'd get a view of California as it sped by backwards, but the State Troopers didn't agree. We were on the road for only ten minutes when they pulled up about two feet in back of the truck, cruising at a swift 60, and then they cut out into the other lane, passed us like a salmon might...