Word: swift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Austria. Walter J. Donnelly had arrived from Vienna to receive the captive airmen for whom the U.S., a few hours before in Budapest, had paid a ransom of $120,000 (plus a C-47 aircraft still held by the Reds). The four flyers-Captain Dave Henderson, Captain John Swift, Tech. Sergeant Jess Duff and Sergeant Jim Elam-did not relax until they were well on the way to Vienna in the ambassador's Cadillac. When they heard over the car's radio an Armed Forces Radio broadcast of their release, followed by stateside basketball scores, they repeated again...
...Swift & Friends. The best thing about the book is its lack of pretentiousness: Jensen has avoided high-flown speculations about the metaphysics and poetry of flight, has sensibly followed a straight chronological pattern. His opening section mixes solid historical accounts of the infancy of flying with a John Dos Passes dithyramble (from The Big Money) on the Wright brothers, a pleasantly batty story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on an "air jungle" high over Britain, and a tale about Tom Swift taking" his girl up, which opens with the classic line: "Oh, Tom, is it really safe...
...lost its advantage with seven minutes to play in the last quarter and never once regained it. The last minutes of the game were a bad memory for the team and the fans, but the explanation is simple--Harvard was tired and could net run with the swift Eagle quintet...
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...Plans. Acheson had come to Paris with a far-reaching proposition to lay before the U.N.-stressing, as Russian proposals usually do, a willingness to talk peace. Some of its essentials: swift completion of a truce in Korea; a fresh call for world disarmament and simultaneous control of atomic energy, based on full inspection; Western agreement to four-power negotiations with Russia any time Russia had something genuine to offer. But it was prepared to go further. Last year, Acheson's "Uniting for Peace" resolution transformed the lowly Assembly from a debating society into an agency that might take...