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Word: speeded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remembered at Oxford as a good history student?though his grades were only average?and for a bright red MG sports car, with which he frequently burned up the A40 highway between Oxford and London on weekends. It was only one of several high-speed sports cars that he has owned, and Ojukwu can still hold forth at length on the fine points of fuel injection. "Those were the good days," he says, "the carefree days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: NIGERIA'S CIVIL WAR: HATE, HUNGER AND THE WILL TO SURVIVE | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

...that it will go to the most needy districts. The states, however, plead that local programs, once established, should not be abruptly, terminated, so the USOE has relented and allowed the states to make the change in a fashion reminiscent of the Supreme Court's "with all deliberate speed...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Helping Schools | 8/6/1968 | See Source »

Correspondent Roland Flamini, who was sunning himself in Malta prior to reassignment from Vienna to Chicago, responded to an urgent cable and within hours was back on station in rainy Vienna. There he kept a sharp eye on events and reactions in all of Eastern Europe and helped to speed files to New York from Prague, where 126 correspondents in the Alcron Hotel vied for the use of one Telex machine and five telephone booths staffed by a single switchboard operator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Aug. 2, 1968 | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...luck, "If you want to tell a lie, it's all right if it's a white lie," and TV viewers see a single-handed super white honkie who swings from trees for miles, fights the jungle's beasts for hours, can swim for miles, run at top speed for miles and still have enough energy left to out smart, out hunt and even defeat whole tribes of natives. And you, Oh God, even you are pictured across the country by the Whites as having blond hair, blue eyes and white skin. You wear a white robe with white wings...

Author: By Harold Vann, | Title: A Black Man's Lament | 7/30/1968 | See Source »

...with the actress Lillie Langtry, a mistress he shared with the Prince of Wales, he missed the boat train to Liverpool. His ship, the Bothnia, was to dock in Ireland before continuing to New York, so Frewen caught the night boat to Dublin, hired a special train to speed him to the port in Cork, and arrived just as the Bothnia steamed out of the harbor. He had, however, cabled his brother Richard, who was already on board, to send a tender for him, and he made a dashing transfer to the Bothnia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Empire Bungler | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

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