Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted to speed or crawl as the spirit moved him; to read new Burma-Shave signs, flip cigarettes at rural mail boxes, or park and fall into a stupor with the sun on his neck." . . . Even before Maine's catastrophic forest fires of 1947, Maine, with most other states, was trying to educate people and discourage them from throwing live ashes from automobiles or other moving vehicles. TIME, instead of condoning this criminal practice of flipping cigarette butts as an amusing sport, should . . . point out the dangers of such carelessness...
...Nein." As the train picked up speed, the city of Berlin rolled by, glittering under the bright afternoon sun. All along the route, Berliners waved and grinned up from the rubble and their potato patches. From the hard wooden seat in her compartment, Marie Goebel waved and smiled back. A white-haired old lady, Fräulein Goebel was proud as punch of being a Berliner. "In Berlin," she said, "the people are livelier. There's something about Berlin that makes you feel ten or 20 years younger...
Doughboy Colonel. James Van Fleet has little knack for the soldier-statesmanship of an Eisenhower or a MacArthur. He is first and foremost a combat soldier who has thoroughly learned his trade. In World War II, under the incomparable George Patton, he learned the value of speed, surprise, audacity. In his imposing collection of medals the one he likes best is the Combat Infantryman's Badge...
...holds the advantage in a race between a quad and a four is a mute point. The variables: the efficiency of four oarsmen plying eight oars versus that of four oarsmen plying four; the speed and power derived from eight short oars versus that of four slightly longer oars; and the stability of a quad where the oarsmen are kept in balance by an equal and straight pull of both arms versus the tendency to roll that is always present in fours and eights...
...first time this year the Crimson was threatened as Penn moved up near the finish. But the varsity showed the 15,000 spectators on the shores of Lake Onondaga that it was able to speed and yet continue to row cleanly. Harvard took the stroke up to 41 and won by open water in 6:48.8 despite a strong headwind...