Word: swift
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia grabbed the chance the West had fumbled. In Soviet Armenia, population has increased faster than in any other Soviet Republic; industrial progress has been so swift that Armenia came to be called Moscow's "favorite child." Russia's armies today include 300,000 Armenian soldiers, 50 Armenian generals. And Moscow has publicly blessed Armenian patriots' claim to the Kars and Ardahan districts of eastern Turkey...
...little mountain land, there was no feeling of greatness and only a little pride, but there was plenty of thankfulness and happiness. Fields were heavy with ripening grain. Throughout the smiling countryside, barelegged children, plump and rosy, waved to sleek, swift trains running on Swiss-clocklike schedule. In the cities, there was industrial peace, assured by the no-strike agreement which the big unions had pledged after winning substantial gains in pay and working conditions...
Professor Northrop's analysis of Russia faces the fact of Communist success: of the deliberate, swift and powerful application of a philosophy, Marx's, in human history. The Marxian dialectic was too rigid for the facts. But at least "it was high time that economic and political theory . . . treated man as a creature with a body, having continuous energy requirements in the form of food to maintain even his human existence...
...swift grey waters of the Rhine last week divided the realm of European Communism. The Kremlin had faced a choice between vanquished Germany and victorious, allied France. With icy calm, it had chosen Germany...
...covered every major political campaign since, and a lot of minor ones, writing them up in the chatty, offhand Collier's style, long on anecdote and short on big, dull facts.'Like Collier's Quentin Reynolds, Kyle Crichton and Jim Marshall, he is a swift, easy writer. He regards his promotion as more of the same formula that gets Collier's its 2,846,052 circulation: slight, slick fiction; articles serious in subject, light in treatment; the simple, direct editorials of Reuben Maury who (for a price) writes another kind for the late Joe Patterson...