Word: swifter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...astonishment as the "livin' pictiars." "Not only were the bicycles going quicker and ringing sharper bells, but the people with the preoccupied faces were walking brisker, the smoke from the strange houses blew faster, and even the town clouds, brown at the edges from smuts and sophistication, raced swifter over a man-made...
...will not only make possible vast cost savings in the engineering industries but also revolutionize computer technology. Among those who have come to inspect the EDM so far: urban developers looking for better ways to plan cities, railroaders seeking quicker ways to unsnarl traffic, aerospace engineers who hope for swifter and finer design work...
Mills makes every nuance numinous, so that he seems to be in the hands of a destiny rather than a playwright. When he first dons the white burnoose of a princely Bedouin, he takes an almost womanish delight in his new finery. Swifter than thought, the mood changes, and the robes seem transformed into the priestly vestments of a man taking holy orders. Later, raising his slight, shattered body from the floor after sexual violation, Mills utters a howl which in its compressed agony echoes the primal curse of man. Robbed of all self-regard, his face whitens to despair...
Istina runs away and comes back, attempts suicide, emerges occasionally into the blinding sunlight of sanity, then plunges again into the pit. She believes there can never be any cure, because what the mentally ill need is "a swifter warmth than most people, even lovers, are prepared to give." The medical staff decides that Istina should have a frontal lobotomy. With the feeling that her personality has been condemned like a slum dwelling, she fearfully awaits the surgeon's scalpel and the terrible peace of mindlessness. But one doctor says no. "I don't want you changed...
...sealed cargo container from door to door without any repackaging of its contents. Though the Teamsters charge that piggybacking is designed to destroy the trucking industry entirely, the railroads are already cooperating with truckers in building large piggyback terminals, can now go full speed ahead with plans for cheaper, swifter piggybacking service. On the strength of the ICC ruling, Fruehauf Trailer Co.. the largest U.S. truckmaker, last week thought that it might eventually find itself manufacturing more piggybacking equipment than conventional trucks...