Word: spedding
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...next day and night were like a whirlwind--twenty-four hours of interrogations without sleep, after which I was handcuffed and put into a black upright coffin in the back of a van and sped over to Secret Police Headquarters (MFS) for an examination of my body including up my rear end, under my tongue, between my toes, and in my hair. I reeled half-asleep into the office of the interrogation judge, Traute, who asked me if I had any wishes before he turned me back over to the Secret Police. He told me they had no bail here...
...some ways, the activity on a greensward in Southampton, N.Y., last week resembled a regulation polo match. The meaty thwock of a mallet hitting a polo ball punctuated the polite murmur of cultivated sideline conversation as a brightly uniformed player sped toward the goal. But one sound was missing: the thundering hoofbeats of the polo ponies. There was good reason. Instead of riding ponies, the players were astride a variety of bicycles, fiercely competing in a sport that is enjoying a rapid resurgence across the U.S.: bicycle polo...
...Hurrying back to Rabat to cable word of the event, diplomatic partygoers were stunned by the normality beyond the palace. Only a mile away, as the shaken guests sped by, grinning Moroccan fishermen stood beside the road, holding up their day's catch for sale...
...annually from the operations. Macao, long the mecca of Asian gambling, has been upgraded from seedy dens where croupiers wore undershirts to gilded halls in lavish hotels boasting Thai masseuses. The tiny Portuguese colony off the Chinese mainland today draws 1,300,000 visitors a year, many of them sped there by gleaming hydrofoils or ferryboats featuring strip shows...
When he came from nowhere to win the Kentucky Derby, the experts sneered over their mint juleps and dismissed him as a fluke. At the Preakness, the horse they called a "ragamuffin" had the same experts choking on their clam cakes as he sped home the winner. Then the wisecracks turned to wonderment. Could he do it? Could this rank unknown, this invader from Venezuela-Venezuela?-make off with the most coveted honor in U.S. horse racing, the Triple Crown? Last week a record crowd of 81,036 came to find out, as the big (16.1 hands) copper colt went...