Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dismisses those as "spring training, the grapefruit league," necessary only for those who need to build a national reputation. He has already visited 600 towns and cities in all 50 states since becoming Vice President. He will be returning to a lot of them, of course, and to speed his way he has chartered an imposingly appointed Boeing 727 that will replace his aging official Convair. The President flies in Air Force One, the Veep in Two; Humphrey aides have been calling his plane Air Force One-and-a-Half for some time. This week he is scheduled to visit...
...victory next Tuesday is Branigin's tightly controlled state party machine, which is allied with many of Indiana's labor leaders. If it runs at top speed, the popular Governor may outdistance both his rivals. But even if it performs only moderately well, it can garner enough votes to prevent either Kennedy or McCarthy from claiming anything significant in the results...
...victims, she knew, tend to be more remunerative under Pennsylvania law than suits filed by aggrieved heirs. As the injured man's wife, she was authorized to file a suit on his behalf-but only so long as he remained alive. The complaint was typed up at breakneck speed; the court clerk was called at home and asked to go to the courthouse and stamp it as filed. Counsel arrived at 12:15, the clerk at 12:45; by 1 p.m. the papers were duly stamped. Unfortunately, Mr. Freeman had died at 12:20. But a U.S. judge...
...aggressive driver everywhere, Abbe Renard points out, "lets himself be guided by his instincts. He tries to enjoy to the maximum the pleasure of speed, to exalt his power, to dominate those he meets on the road." And no where is the species more homicidal than in France, whose drivers are peculiarly susceptible to "vanity, excessive impetuosity and bad manners." A recent altercation in Paris eloquently illustrates the diagnosis: annoyed when he was delayed briefly by a slow-moving panel truck, the driver of a Citroën sedan sped around it, whipped in front of it in an insulting...
Very pleased with last week's win over M.I.T. and Dartmouth, Andersen does not plan any changes in personnel before the Sprints. "The group has developed very well together and they have almost realized their potential speed," he said...