Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once on Central's board, Young could begin his missionary work to reduce Central's huge debt, step up modernization. But he could not hope to get quick control of Central unless 1) Central's present directors submitted, 2) ICC added its blessing. Last week Central's directors were seriously thinking of making Young board chairman right...
...quarter-century divided between faraway legations and duty at the fountainhead in Washington, Wilson has acquired sureness and efficiency. Not only is his embassy the best-run in Ankara; he has a knack of anticipating State Department wishes. Perhaps most important, Wilson is willing to take responsibility for quick decisions when there is no time for consultation-a quality of great value in the Near East these days...
...History offers each of its great challenges only once. After only one failure, or one refusal, the offer is withdrawn. Babylon, Athens, Thebes, Alexandria, Madrid, Vienna sink back, and do not rise again. ... It may be that the darkness of great tragedy will bring to a quick end the short, bright history of the United States -for there is enough truth in the dream of the New World to make the action tragic. The United States is called before the rehearsals are completed. Its strength and promise have not been matured by the wisdom of time and suffering...
Suddenly a flickering, ethereal light danced about the venerable head of Rural Dean Cyril A. Wheeler. The back of his snowy surplice had burst into flame from a nearby candle. The dean looked startled, but stood quietly as Leighton's quick-thinking Vicar S. John Forrest hurried over and began beating him on the back with a hymnbook. In a moment the crisis was over. As the solemn Requiem Mass swept sonorously on ("Yet, good Lord, in grace complying, rescue me from fires undying"), Dean Wheeler hurried out to don a new surplice. "I felt unusually warm," he explained...
Bees on the Cake. In Bloemfontein Princess Margaret got a special thrill with her first ride in an airplane, when she and the family piled into their royal Vikings for a quick picnic in the Free State Game Reserve. Princess Elizabeth had already had her big moment in East London when she christened a new dry dock and was given five flawless diamonds from...