Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...towns; in the south at Sapoá and Peña Blanca, they also violated the Costa Rican border in hot pursuit of Sandinistas. After a week of steady fighting, the conflict had taken on the proportions of a bloodbath, and U.S. diplomats met hastily with the government to speed the evacuation of a reported 1,500 Americans caught in the fighting...
...would be self-defeating to turn into a society of police and wardens in order to restore confidence in the law's consequences. But confusion of judicial purpose, with lapses into wistful incompetence and the sociological sigh, is just as destructive to public morale. Within civilized limits, speed and certainty of punishment represent an approachable ideal. - Lance Morrow
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: big senior offensive tackle Joe Kross, durable senior middle guard Tom McDevitt, senior tight end Paul Sablock, and Wayne Moore, a senior halfback with speed to burn...
...election's speed was surprising, so was the identity of the 263rd Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. In the first days after Paul's death, Luciani, 65, Patriarch of Venice, had been mentioned only as a remote compromise candidate if the conclave reached a deadlock. Now he was in the window, a frail-looking, slight, bespectacled figure in ponifical vestments, lifting his hands gingerly in the papal salute, offering blessing with a brisk gesture of his right hand, nodding smilingly at the excited crowd below...
...thankful it is not some of the others." In Little Rock, Ark., Bishop Andrew J. McDonald heard the news from a priest and was forced to look up Luciani in a church directory. The rapid decision, quipped the bishop, "just shows that the Holy Spirit is quicker than the speed of light...