Word: swift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bathrooms account for much of the water demand, each flush of a water closet requiring eight gallons of water. Van Dorp suggested that his findings might be used as a swift and foolproof system (dubbed Teleflush by the irreverent) of rating TV programs. To no one's surprise, Van Dorp's system reveals (see chart) that Toledo's favorite is the same as the rest of the nation's: I Love Lucy...
...Negro is a good customer. He wants to feel that he can buy the best. Swift & Co. does not advertise its ordinary fowl in Negro publications, but the more expensive Swift's Premium ("The dream chicken that came true"). Several Negro families often pool their savings to buy an expensive car and drive it on alternate days. On Harlem's Lenox Avenue, Cadillacs are so commonplace that nobody turns to look at them any more (a situation which one resourceful driver met by having his Cadillac...
...harder doctors have tried to trans plant glands from one person to another, the more they have become convinced that their best chance is with the swift-growing tissues from an embryo or a very young baby. Last week Surgeon Julian A. Sterling of Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center reported that he had put this theory into practice and transplanted an entire thyroid gland, with its four tiny parathyroids attached, from an infant to an adult, and that the graft had worked well for five months. It was, he believed, the first case of its kind...
...Inchon in Sept. 1950, said MacArthur, changed pessimism to optimism: "This was the golden moment to translate military victory to a politically advantageous peace . . . The inertia of our diplomacy failed utterly to utilize the victory of Inchon and subsequent destruction of the North Korean armies as the basis for swift and dynamic political action to restore peace and unity to Korea...
...biggest factor in favor of the revolving stage was the necessity for rapid scene shifts. "The General is a tense, nervous play where events follow upon each other at fever pitch," Herrey said. "In a situation of this kind, swift scene changes are imperative to maintain the intensity of the drama...