Word: spedding
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...about 300 tons-of Russian-and Czech-made automatic rifles, machine guns, hand grenades and other military hardware have been fed to the Simbas through Juba. In Juba, the arms are hastily unloaded (often the pilots leave the engines running), transferred to the Simbas' waiting truck convoys, and sped across 150 miles of improved road to the main rebel receiving point at Aba, a small town near Faradje just over the Congo border. There, the rebels' 18th Battalion supervises the distribution of the arms to rebel units throughout the northern Congo...
...there were ominous troop movements in Saigon. Reportedly the operation was directed by Brigadier General Nguyen Chanh Thi, the mustached, intense commander of the I Corps in the northern region, and Air Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, who affects harlequin glasses and a pearl-handled revolver. Squads of police sped through Saigon's darkened streets, arresting seven council members and a dozen-odd politicians and student leaders...
While West German officials watched nervously, Jordan's King Hussein recently sped round and round a Stuttgart test track in a Mercedes 230 SL sports car, so enthralled that he refused to continue his tour of a nearby assembly plant. The products of Stuttgart's Daimler-Benz A.G. have proved irresistible not only to Hussein but to enough other kings and commoners to make Daimler Europe's third-ranked automaker and the Continent's biggest manufacturer of trucks and buses. Half the "big" cars-with engines larger than 1.7 liters-and half the trucks on German...
With Yale leading 14-12 late in the fourth period, the sophomore halfback took a handoff from John McCluskey and sped around right end. McCluskey gave him one block. Pete Hall eliminated Yale's corner man, and Leo outran three defenders, scoring untouched...
...Anakawa sped downfield, easily skirted surprised Harvard fullback Terry Winslow, and passed across to McGuire who had moved up quickly into the penalty area. As Crimson goalie Nat Bowditch moved out, McGuire slipped the ball neatly back to his halfback Frank Golet who popped it by Bowditch into the open...