Word: spedding
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...many loyal but tired Frenchmen last week the springs and parks and ornamental villas of Vichy seemed more forlorn than ever. For out of Vichy, after weeks of rumor, came the most striking signs yet of French "collaboration" with Adolf Hitler, and suspicion sped through France that if Marshal Petain was still doggedly trying to pick up the French pieces, his aged fingers were now only fumbling...
Last week, as the U.S. sped work on its Caribbean rampart, from Bermuda to British Guiana, the U.S. Navy was busy on further defenses to the Panama Canal. While the first U.S. draft of soldiers for the Lend-Lease base in Bermuda shoved off from Brooklyn, Rear Admiral Frank H. Sadler, commanding the Fifteenth (Canal Zone) Naval District, told newsmen of growing dumps of supplies and equipment at Balboa, the great naval base on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal...
...Tokyo sped the pleased little diplomat, through border country from which Japanese troops were already being moved south to new spheres of action. In his brief case was the precious pact, signed by himself and Russia's Premier Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov just a week before. Tokyo newspapers were already hailing it as a "new sword" in Japan's hand, with which Japan would try to settle its differences with Great Britain, the U.S., The Netherlands Indies and China-diplomatically, if possible. If diplomacy did not succeed, Japan no longer feared attack from the rear...
Under a brilliant moon the desert looked like a plain of salt. Across it three British staff cars sped. At a fork in the road a sentry stopped them and signaled the drivers to turn off onto a small side road. The drivers told the sentry who were in the cars-two generals and their staffs. The sentry said he was sorry, but the main road ahead was being prepared for demolition in connection with withdrawal operations...
...Senators and Representatives) assembled near the Capitol to watch curly-headed Senator Tom Connolly of Texas crown bonnie Bonnie Patton, 21-year-old daughter of Texas Congressman Nat Patton and receptionist at the Congressional ladies' cloakroom, as this year's "Miss Capitol Hill." Then, 150 strong, they sped to Manhattan on their eighth annual Easter outing, called duly upon Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, whom they found in a reminiscent mood. Sighed he, harking back to his Congressional days: "I once had a good secretary down there, too. But I lost her-I married...