Word: spedding
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Other ships looked like black bugs under the blazing desert sun. Alongside, white, shimmering sand on the rock-filled banks slipped silently by. Cars and trucks sped by occasionally on the canal highway. Beyond, in the rolling desert, djinns of dust spun with the wind. Occasionally we saw a camouflaged gun position, a snorting dredge, a rowboat with a fisherman and his son watching their nets...
Under Dubois' assault, the Moroccan government made a slight concession: instead of being whisked off to France in the early morning as originally planned, the deportees were allowed to remain in Morocco till midafternoon to settle their affairs, then sped by air to Paris. Next day, with pointed timing, the Moroccan Foreign Office notified Ambassador Dubois that it planned to revoke a long-standing arrangement which allows French citizens to enter Morocco without a visa...
With the subject at rest, the pen recorded gentle waves about 20 seconds apart. If he was given a tricky mathematical problem and became tense, or if he was startled by a starting gun fired near his ear, the waves sped up. In another subject, they might stop entirely. The magnetic capsule gives the researchers plenty of time to work: they have made recordings for as long as five hours. The same technique could be used a day or two later, as the pellet slowly works its way through the digestive tract, to determine how the intestines contract...
...many a news-conscious visitor the biggest surprise in San Francisco last week was the sight of that morning's New York Times at the breakfast table. Each day during the Republican National Convention the Times sped across the continent through new facsimile equipment, using a TV microwave relay circuit. By getting out 20,000 daily free copies of a special, ten-page, adless edition, the Times demonstrated that, technically at least, a truly national U.S. newspaper is within reach...
...true, not true," muttered Otto Nuschke. He picked up his cane and stumped out of the hall. Earlier, Johannes Dieckmann had sped homeward in his black Russian Zis limousine...