Word: swift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last January they counterattacked. In a swift and skillful political coup, while Craig was keeping a speaking engagement in Topeka, Kans.. they ousted Noland Wright, pro-Craig chairman of the Republican state committee, and installed 32-year-old Paul Cyr, an O.S.S. veteran of World War II, handpicked by Jenner and Capehart...
...signs of an early business upturn. "The gloomy ones may well be caught out in the sunshine with their umbrellas and overshoes on," said Teetor. Though two private economists, Walter E. Hoadley of Armstrong Cork Co. and Dr. Courtney Brown of Columbia University, saw no such sign of a swift upturn, neither could they see any signs of an oncoming bust. The gentle slide, they thought, had just about hit bottom...
Commuting over the Charles had been difficult since 1635, when a small and inefficient ferry began operating. The town council, as ruthlessly swift as its modern counterpart, spent twenty-seven years arguing over construction of a bridge. Finally, in 1662, the city fathers erected a wooden bridge, the first to span the Charles, and the first of any importance in America...
Unlike the manufacturers of these famed European cars, the builder of the sleek blue-and-white racers at Palm Beach is not in business to make money or to advertise the qualities of his regular production models. At 47, Briggs Swift Cunningham of Palm Beach and Greens Farms, Conn, is an outstanding example of a vanishing breed: the millionaire amateur who devotes his time and money, his enthusiasm and his burning energy to the pursuit of a breakneck sport...
...downward column of smoke and a few bits of floating debris last week severely set back the world's bravest post war experiment in civil aviation. One more British Comet, the third of the swift jet liners in less than a year, crumpled in mid-air and plunged into the Tyrrhenian Sea, killing all on board...