Word: swiftest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Certainly Japanese land and air forces did not fail for lack of effort. Ninety miles east of Rangoon they established a jumping-off spot at the smoking, Kipling-sung city of Moulmein, fanned northward along Burma's longest and swiftest river, the Salween, for a frontal assault against the curving coastal Martaban-Pegu railroad that leads into the Burma Road, feed line for seaborne supplies from the U.S. But there the advance slowed, then virtually halted...
NAIROBI, Kenya--Italy's hold on southern Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland has been "doomed," British quarters said tonight, by the capture of the Somaliland capital of Mogadiscio in a British land, sea, and air assault climaxing one of the swiftest victories...
...unprecedented in scale. It covers the whole Mediterranean Sea, and spills out on to the lands around the sea. It has already lasted eight months and shows no signs of abating. In it are engaged vessels ranging from unwieldy monitor to the swiftest aircraft. By it may be decided fates of nations, by it entire areas of human philosophy may be affected. It tests, perhaps finally, the fundamental power of Britain...
...scene set in the delivery room at Widener is the most complicated of the review, also the swiftest and most caustic. It rips and ribs "Harry's Club" for the hopeless book delivery and redtape-edged stack permits. The desk attendant bewails the competition from Boylston, and the mysterious building on the right, while a happy little fellow who appears frequently, and from nowhere, promises "Dancing in the Stacks Tonight" because it's reading period...