For the next two weeks, Kamal worked well into the evening in his fortified office in the southern suburb of Arasat, before being sped by armoured convoy across the July 14 Bridge – which had been a target only days earlier – to his home inside the Green Zone.
Once in, I sat on the grass, hoping, hoping, hoping to get a touch of the ball, as it sped over the so, so smooth field, my feet occasionally, rakishly, rebelliously, resting over the rope to show just how cool I was.
But as the truck full of frightened schoolgirls sped deeper into Boko Haram territory, two sisters clasped hands and jumped off together into the night.
Cook passed the record of Gooch with an uncharacteristic stroke, a square drive off the front foot against Southee, which sped to the boundary.
We sped out to tiny, uninhabited Green Island – "the office", joked our instructor, Irene – on a stomach-churningly bumpy motorised dinghy.
In 2001, a new type of software – BitTorrent – was launched that simplified and sped up the online filesharing process.
One in 10 drivers didn't stop when the signal 'had clearly been red for more than three seconds' (the number who jumped a red during the first two seconds is unrecorded), while a further two out of those 10 sped through amber.
It's under Isis control," said Mujtaba, another young Shia militiaman, as he sped towards the frontline.
He sped past Porsches, Maseratis and "mother-of-pearl Rolls-Royces", he and his wife flattened against the back seat.
During the following three minutes the crumhorn sped up, slowed, sped up again, slowed, and finally broke down altogether.
The Academies Act sped up the conversion of schools' status, and Gove rushed it through to royal assent by July 2010.
