Word: swift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some pessimists fear that Britain's swift but short-ranged jet Comets will capture air-transport supremacy from U.S. planes. Last week, Lockheed Aircraft Corp. tried to cheer up the mourners. It showed off the first model of its "turbo-compounded" Super Constellation, a piston-type plane which will not only carry about three times as many passengers (99) as the Comet I, but cover long hauls in less elapsed time. It is the first transport, said Lockheed, which will be able to guarantee nonstop flights from New York to Europe on a regular-fare, scheduled basis...
...dream up the "organic" theory of gardening, which teaches that all animal and vegetable waste should be returned to the soil, in order to grow the most healthful and best-tasting produce. I am sure Mr. H. does not maintain that the carrot can tell the difference between decaying swifts and fertilizer from Swift...
...able to do something for the release of prisoners of war, I would not travel to Moscow." At the same time West German papers published a letter Dibelius had written to Stalin last year protesting against the Communists' tyrannical rule in East Germany. Moscow's reaction was swift. Last week, the day before the bishop and five other German churchmen were due to leave, a wire arrived from Moscow's Bishop Nikolai: "I regret deeply to have to inform you that the Very Holy Patriarch is sick. This makes it impossible to receive you as planned." Germans...
...tinkle of expensive glassware mingled with the murmur of subdued conversation and the swift, deft movement of red-coated waiters in the grand ballroom of London's Grosvenor House one day last week. Distinguished guests sipped and chatted at the invitation of the Iraq Petroleum Co., to celebrate the opening of a $115 million new 30-inch pipeline to the Mediterranean that promises to more than triple the output of Iraq's oil. The assembled guests watched a movie of the pipeline's construction, and applauded vigorously at the progress it augured. "You can be bloody sure...
...Cotsopoulos, the Clytemnestra of A. Raftopoulou. But what is usually the stumbling block of modern productions of Greek drama-the management of the chorus-was this time the special glory. There were "a few too-mannered touches; but its grave movement, its now murmurous, now resonant chanting, its sudden, swift, intensely dramatic confrontation of the audience, gave it a kind of orchestral grandeur and swell...