Word: rapidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This great navy had, however, two weaknesses: the supporting industrial bases, never geared to rapid replacements or mass production, and the strategy of the Japanese high command...
...Riding home in my 'present car,' which the Rapid Transit System undoubtedly purchased years before I was born, I read the second paragraph [about the typical TIME-reading man], looked down at one of my two summer suits (a greasy pair of overalls) and then read on, looking hopefully for exceptions. I found none. Nevertheless, I hung on my strap and continued reading TIME, as I have been doing for years...
...police rounded up the third man and handcuffed him along with six women and another man found in the house. We were just about to leave when the whole hollow suddenly exploded with a blast of Bren guns, Sten guns, and rifles firing in rapid bursts. Bullets spat in the dirt and sizzled through the grass. Two hand grenades exploded, as a third bounced harmlessly on the ground...
Ball Bearings & Bottle Bombs. It was the first action for the new force. Created since November's rioting, it was divided into eight super-precincts, which covered all France, and equipped with rapid transport and radio jeeps. It had special military powers and was especially designed to provide a fast, hard-hitting counter to any pattern of scattered, simultaneous outbreaks that the Communists, or anyone else, might devise. At Bergougnan the Compagnie de Sécurité received a baptism of sulphuric acid, but it won a swift, decisive victory...
...Mexico Berman made a rapid recovery. He went down on a Guggenheim Fellowship, carrying a Brownie, and returned with a suitcase full of snapshots to use for filling in the details of his imaginary compositions. He found the life of the Indians, in rags beneath their ancient monuments, as moving and vivid as his gloomiest dream. "There's always some disaster," he says happily. "They spend half their lives in the fields and on the roads-without an auto, without a Frigidaire. The bareness is what appeals...