Word: swift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contributors also appear on the University books. The Elks gave Harvard $250 scholarships; the Massasolt Greyhound Association gave the Department of Legal Medicine $1,000; and donations also came from the Champion Spark Plug Company, Swift and Company, National Biscuit Company, and Gillette Safety Razor Company...
...Political Committee yesterday stamped its formal approval on a plan for swift General Assembly action against aggression. It also put Russia on a trouble-shooting peace observation group in a rate display of big power harmony...
Only a Chinese Communist or Russian army marching to the aid of the Korean comrades could possibly stave off a swift defeat for the Red aggressors. But more & more such intervention seemed unlikely. The time for it would have been a month ago when a relatively minor effort might have pushed U.N. forces into a Dunkirk on their southern beachhead. Now, for a change, not the free world but the enemy had acted too little and too late...
...learn about the Spanish origins of U.S. cattle. He came back with some dramatic bullfight sketches and material for a fine first novel, The Brave Bulls (TIME, April 25, 1949). Later, he visited Southwestern ranches and Midwestern stock farms, spent a solid week on the killing floor at Swift & Co.'s Chicago stockyards. The resulting pictures struck Texans as not only good but mighty authentic. Looking at a Lea branding scene last week, one grizzled cattleman remarked: "You can smell the smoke from the burned hair...
...movie shows the swift rise of young Broadway Actress Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) from a stagestruck unknown to an adulated star. She is seen first at her most triumphant moment, as the theater's elite prepare to honor her with their highest prize for acting. Then, in flashbacks introduced with narration by three different characters, the story of Eve's success proves her less a Cinderella than a Lady Macbeth...