Word: swiftest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sake of our soldiers and sailors, let us hurry, hurry, hurry, not only in winning the war, but in being ready for the peace. If this transition is to be handled without unnecessary unemployment, without further inflation and chaotic confusion, the government must be ready for the swiftest action. . . . Further delays will turn the adventure in prosperity that lies within our grasp into an adventure in adversity...
Thus CBS's European news chief, Ed Murrow, described the London room from which, all last week, came the U.S.'s swiftest and most dramatic news of the invasion. It was one of the small, windowless, ill-ventilated cubbyholes deep in the basement recesses of the massive Ministry of Information. There the four big U.S. networks forgot their rivalries in a common passion to get out the biggest news of World War II. It was U.S. radio's biggest moment, and radio...
Meanwhile, Atlantic City prepared for its next contest-to choose the nation's swiftest clam and oyster openers. That sounded like more...
Messrs. Hull and Welles treat each other correctly, and even with a kind of friendliness at times. But mentally they are poles apart on most things. Welles is one of the swiftest, most businesslike administrators in the Government; Hull, perhaps because of his 24 years in Congress, is firm in his upright beliefs but lost in masses of papers and data that stack his desk...
During the past 20 years Siberia has been the stage for one of the swiftest, most abrupt and feverish social and political developments the world has known. How massive that development may be, the rest of the world began to suspect when most of the industrial Ukraine went under, and Russia continued to arm herself from the Siberian arsenal...