Word: swift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of the old four-track main line, the Central's electronic system needs just two tracks, will be able to shunt swift express trains around rumbling freights by cross-over switches every seven miles, also step up the speed of freight trains from 30 to 60 m.p.h. The dispatchers can also send passenger trains hurtling east and west at 80 m.p.h. on the same track, switch one to the opposite track to pass. Cost of the Central's electronic progress: $6,238,000 for the first step, as much as $50 million by the time it extends...
...Abby's swift climb is the more remarkable because her column often reads like a parody of other lovelornists. In fact, San Franciscans at first thought that Abby even concocted her own letters as a deliberate takeoff. One letter to the Chronicle that is still quoted with glee came from a girl who confessed: "My boy friend took me out on my 21st birthday and wanted to show me a very special good time. I usually don't go in much for drinking, but I had three martinis. During dinner we split a bottle of wine. After dinner...
...sharp perception. But an ultra-subjective method, which by now is a commonplace of fiction, has no proper place in drama. It is not just that drama works from the outside in, rather than vice versa, but that such mental voyaging, in the theater, is seldom sly, swift and aberrant enough to seem real, nor cumulative enough to be dramatic...
Clutch, Lean, Absorb. So Gene Fullmer folded his arms in front of him to ward off uppercuts, and waded in. Robby clutched, leaned and absorbed an awful banging around his ears and his midsection. Once or twice he shook loose and threw the swift combinations that had won him back his title for the third time after an unhappy retirement to nightclub hoofing. Fullmer blinked and kept coming...
...MEAT PACKERS are pushing for permission to branch into retail meat, grocery business. Swift, Armour and Cudahy have petitioned Federal District Court in Washington, D.C. to revoke consent decree of 1920 prohibiting them from owning retail meat markets and restricting their dealing in 140 products, e.g., fruits, vegetables, fresh milk...