Word: swift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fatal Mistake." The descent from the triumph of V-J Day to the day of desperation at Suwon had been dizzyingly swift. Communist imperialism began its march through Asia before V-J Day. It used the most mobile of weapons, political agitation and ruthless organization. In Korea-as in China, Indo-China, Malaya and Burma-native Communists, shouting slogans of freedom and independence, were forging for their people heavier chains of slavery than even Asia had ever known...
House's quick approval of a $653 million appropriation bill which included $50 million for Korea, and the swift agreement of a joint House-Senate conference to extend the draft bill for a year-with the President empowered to decree when & if inductions should begin...
Dagger Dance. The Aragvi is named after a famous swift river in Soviet Georgia, and its cuisine is Georgian and Caucasian. Specialties: shashlyk (broiled spitted lamb), pilaf (a condiment-hot concoction of lamb and rice) and satsivi (white meat of turkey in Georgian nut sauce, served cold...
Smith can paint a miniature portrait with a few swift strokes, as in last week's column about little Bill Boland, the 18-year-old apprentice jockey who rode the winner of the Kentucky Derby (see SPORT): "A few minutes after the jockey room was cleared of its Derby confusion, four people [walked] down the track toward the backstretch stables. Hiking along just inside the clubhouse rail was a kid in a peaked cloth cap and leather windbreaker, with blue jeans clinging tightly to bowed legs. He carried one red rose from Middleground's blanket. The thousands...
...first sentence, Mr. Kemler sees Mencken as a "Rabelais, Swift, or Shaw--who has somehow abused his gifts." Mr. Kemler fails to make his case for this comparison. His book is a humdrum piece of writing, devoid of wit and the dramatic flair necessary for a biography...