Word: swift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bare Leg. To keep check on the density of the flies during the 40-day spraying period, the expedition resorted to a makeshift method: a member of the rescue team exposed an arm or leg for a specified time, then counted the fly bites on it. Swift treatment prevented infection. At first, as many as 400 bites a day were being counted; at the end of 40 days, a man could bare his arm or leg without getting a single bite. Even mosquitoes and other pests had been wiped out by the helicopters' relentless spraying...
...after a 13-hour factory day, he used to do calisthenics or swim at the Y. After a speech or meeting away from Detroit, he used to hike six or seven miles late at night before going to bed. A powerhouse of physical energy, he bounces and bounds with swift, long strides...
...Race Is Not to the Swift...
Your May 9 story of Frank Swift is inspiring in these times when being voluntarily unemployed is looked upon virtually as a crime (even in the case of so-called emancipated women). I have been trying to avoid steady, secure employment (which is very boring) for many years, and I hope I am as successful at it as Frank has been...
...odds-on favorite to win his eleventh race in a row, Paul Andolino's disheveled little sprinter, Boston Doge, just could not get going on Belmont's damp track, finished a bad third behind Nance's Lad and Informant in the Swift Stakes...