Word: swift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drifting off course or breaking any one of a long list of rules. They were forbidden to replace a whole host of parts (which were coated with luminous paint to make them glow under ultraviolet light as a check against cheating). The trial would not go to the swift, but to the steady...
...square miles learned to tremble at news that his gang was near. Few moneylenders dared call in the police when Man Singh sent them the chopped-off finger of a kidnaped relative demanding ransom for the rest of him, for the dacoit's punishment of informers was swift and bloody. But Man Singh, for all his legendary ruthlessness, was still a man of some honor who was always generous to the poor and considerate of women. After killing a policeman in line of duty, he would often pay for a fine funeral and settle a generous...
Three weeks ago, as the 4,000-odd policemen assigned to track him down were combing the wild hills in a desperate last attempt to bring him to justice, Man Singh's men made a swift raid on a village and shot dead the Brahman priest's only surviving relative. At last the dacoit had fulfilled his vow to Kali...
Sterner than Swift...
...entry in the jet-age commercial air race is far more than just an answer to Britain's ill-fated Comet I, or the Comet's bigger sisters II and III. The 707 is as much of an advance over Britain's early leader as the swift advance of jet-aircraft design will allow. Its graceful fuselage sweeps back 128 ft., a full 35 ft. longer than the Comet I. In its fuselage, almost as wide as a living room and as long as a ballroom, it can carry 130 passengers...