Word: swifter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soong, the Gissimo's able, Harvard-trained brother-in-law? Once called "Asia's greatest statesman," T. V. Soong was an ace trouble shooter and efficiency expert in government. And what about the powerful Cheng Hsueh Hsi (Political Science Group), the organization of Chinese businessmen who favor swifter modernization of their country's political and economic structure...
General Arturo Rawson became President, ruled Argentina for almost two days. While Porteños, and the rest of the world, looked on in some amazement, the Presidential guard was changed at the double quick, and swifter than the opening of a trap door, General Pedro Ramirez succeeded President Arturo Rawson...
...brown and grey gorges and leaping yellow waters the lean boatmen hopped and screamed like jays. Above their ragged blue trousers they wore emblazoned shirts. They had daubed yellow pigment on the heads of their boy helpers. They had oiled the keels of their long craft to maker them swifter. Now they waited for the starting signal...
...bombers the men grew tense after the long monotony of their flight. The motors roared on steadily, but now their throbbing beat was swifter, and by the steady pressure in their ears the men knew they were going down. Ahead and below, the lakes that marked their targets shone like silver...
Divided into eleven episodes, Winter Soldiers treats of people heroic enough to die for cause, yet human enough to swerve and falter, muster only a last-minute courage. Badly in need of sharper dialogue and swifter movement, Winter Soldiers, for all its faults, outranks most of what Broadway now has to offer...