Word: swift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...single exception of 1949, when an attack of nerves ruined his game) that he seemed scornful of any opposition. Willie sat in his chair, smoked and impatiently tapped his foot while Joe made his runs. Then he moved to the table, chalked his cue and stroked his shots with swift perfection. Most blocks he won handily; scores were as lopsided as 150 to 8. "It's a great game, but it's not much fun any more," Willie complains. "There are only about ten real pros in pocket billiards-only five who are first-class. All the rest...
...Philbrick, erstwhile informant for the FBI and currently cloak-and-dagger columnist for the New York Herald-Tribune Syndicate. . . The Philbrick letter, stylistically, appears to be irony, though with somewhat less deft a touch than one likes to see. This is said not by way of criticism--even Swift produced some lemons in his time--but as explanation of the possibility that I might have have misinterpreted Mr. Philbrick's intent. As it stands, the inferences appear to be two: (a) that because the Soviet Union reports a large grain crop in 1954, it is ridiculous to suppose that...
...Swift & Co., however, cares little about putting on a show front or catering to executive whims. It has its executive vice presidents sitting out in the center of a huge bull pen where they can look right across the desks at their assistants. At Philadelphia's Smith Kline & French Laboratories, the chairman of the board, department heads and general employees all look at the same green-painted walls, rugless floors and utilitarian furniture...
...able to punish local aggressions with such speed and force that the Communists will finally call a halt. This is the concept of the double deterrent to the wars of tomorrow. To the essential capacity of pulverizing the U.S.S.R. by thermonuclear strategic attack must be added a tactical claw -swift, deadly, flexible...
...march of the robots seemed so swift that C.I.O. President Walter Reuther warned direly of the "depression and chaos" that automation might cause if not instituted under a broad plan. But in the long run automation was bound to boost the standard of living by increasing productivity and creating new jobs in the building and maintaining of the new machines. Said another C.I.O. boss, the late Philip Murray, in 1951: "I do not know of a single, solitary instance where a great technological gain has taken place in the U.S. that it has actually thrown people out of work...