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...Zerbee method, says Mr. Zerbee, is much quicker and simpler than the usual figuring with heavy books of tables. It is almost as fast as determining a ship's position by radio devices such as loran, which may be undependable in wartime with the enemy jamming...
...William Randolph Hearst's trained seals, none were quicker on their flippers than the correspondents in his Washington bureau. When The Chief snapped, they did verbal, handstands for MacArthur, steadily honked that Dean Acheson was being fired any minute, tugged in pet Congressmen to sound off on any Hearstian cause...
Nonetheless, McCarthy left his listeners gasping at his bravery when he challenged Duran, Jessup, Acheson & Co. to sue him for libel, since "there is no immunity that surrounds this podium here today." But again the McCarthy tongue had been quicker than the ear. In cold transcript, his apparently offhand statements turned out to be well protected by testimony already in the legislative record, or phrased behind a lawyer's calculated vagueness...
...seen to stay close to the top of his game, and stay nervous throughout the match. Most players will be nervous at the start of a match. But they'll shake it. Usually, the sign of a better man will be that he will shake his nervousness off quicker...
...purchases are the smallest part of the mobilization program." But the unanswered question is whether, in a competitive economy, the Government has any business allocating for civilian industry. If businessmen had been left to fight it out among themselves, they undoubtedly could have nosed out their supplies a lot quicker than they will be able to do by Government order. Now, if supplies get any worse, businessmen who have been screaming at each other will simply do their screaming at the Government...