Word: rapidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wilfrid Eady, bone-tired after a year and a half of financial negotiations with Canada, Argentina, India and Egypt, had been dispatched to Washington, along with other financial experts. Cameron Fromanteel Cobbold, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, was vacationing in the south of France. Set in rapid motion by the crisis, he "dipped down" in Britain for a quick check with Whitehall and the Bank of England's headquarters in Thread-needle Street, arrived in the U.S. unshaven and with his old school tie (Eton's black with narrow light blue stripes) holding up his pants...
...Very Difficult Point. In Florence, as elsewhere in Italy, the Communist Party has had such an unnaturally rapid growth that many of its members are still not firmly-disciplined. On three issues (Trieste, Vatican relations and the Marshall approach) the Italian party has deviated from the Moscow line. If it came to power, the Italian party could probably keep most of these free-thinking Communists in check, but their existence is significant. Here is a typical conversation with one of them...
...countries to the end that many of them shall not become simply armored invalids artificially ironclad in time of emergency, but rather communities that are strong through production, sound through equitable exploitation of their resources. Nations that are weak owing to their economy will be unable to exercise rapid and decisive action against aggression...
...Spain is a festering sore on the conscience of the Western powers." So writes Emmet John Hughes in the best-informed book* yet published on post-civil-war Spain. The present U.S. attitude toward Franco, says Author Hughes, "can only hasten the likelihood of civil war and facilitate the rapid growth of Communism in Spain. . . . The Western democracies have failed to evolve and express a clear, purposeful policy that would free Spain's democratic forces from the deadly Fascist-Communist cross fire in which they have been placed...
...modern fiction. It is also a lip-smacking over the flavors of English prose to rouse the tired syntax in 10,000 editorials. Nabokov's style glimmers with reflections of many great styles (Gogol's, Flaubert's, Joyce's) and yet is distinctly his own: rapid, brilliantly metaphorical, daintily savage and smooth. The reader, never bored, can run his own blue pencil through Nabokov's excesses, such as the "anal ruby" of a bicycle. He will not have to use the pencil often...