Word: swift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brown now sells abroad fully three-fourths of his present tractor production of 8,000 a year. Out of the profits, he bought up the sickly Aston Martin Ltd., and began designing, in 1947, the sleek, swift "DB" (for David Brown) sports cars, which were soon winning many a British and European trophy. Brown turned each year's racing model into the following year's production model, also produced a luxurious, saloon-type car (the Lagonda). Although production is limited (about ten a week) and the cars are virtually handmade, they have earned Brown plenty of prestige...
Jailed and cut off from the world outside, Oatis was told that the U.S. embassy "is doing nothing for you." His captors gave him a swift course in Communist Czech law. The activities of correspondents, they said, are divided into two categories: 1) "official reporting," i.e., government handouts, 2) "unofficial reporting," i.e., stories from any other source. The second, he was told, was espionage in Communist Czechoslovakia, even though it would be considered routine reporting in any country of the free world. His chief interrogator, a man with a "hideous smile" who said simply, "Just call me 'The Boss...
...swift seasons roll...
...China or stopped at the 38th parallel, whether Van Fleet or MacArthur or the White House had the right solution-and they don't pretend to know all the answers. All that binds them is their common understanding of the steep ridges and the stinking paddies and the swift night attacks from the north...
...Remo had beautiful eyes "framed in long and vigorous lashes." He would bend over them while they were working, and when they felt "his fresh, youthful, fruit-scented breath on their necks and faces, a novel, unexpected feeling of well-being would run through them, bringing with it a swift intoxication, a slight giddiness." Neither of the old maids had the least idea what was creating such havoc in their dried-up bosoms...