Word: swiftest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since Lyndon Johnson's ringing declaration of July 28-"We will stand in Viet Nam"-the U.S. has mounted the biggest, swiftest, costliest military buildup in peacetime history. It has laid supply lines across 8,000 miles of ocean. And the nation has filled them in that time with as many tons of materiel as the U.S. could deliver for the first five months of its North African invasion in World War II. From humming Stateside training camps, where 12,500 recruits a month are being taught to fight, to the beaches and jungles of South Viet Nam, where...
...remarkable turnabout in the war is the result of one of the swiftest, biggest military buildups in the history of warfare. Everywhere today South Viet Nam bustles with the U.S. presence. Bulldozers by the hundreds carve sandy shore into vast plateaus for tent cities and airstrips. Howitzers and trucks grind through the once-empty green highlands. Wave upon wave of combat-booted Americans-lean, laconic and looking for a fight-pour ashore from armadas of troopships. Day and night, screaming jets and prowling helicopters seek out the enemy from their swampy strongholds in southernmost Camau all the way north...
Another enigma surrounding the swiftest knockout ever in a heavyweight title fight was Clay's failure to go to a neutral corner immediately. After the knockdown Clay hovered over Liston and hollered a few vilifications at him. As I've always understood the rule, a fighter must retire to a neutral corner before the countdown begins. If Clay had thought the knockdown were legitimate, he wouldn't have jeopardized his chances for a first-round victory by carrying on a little social chat with his prostrate victim before going to a corner...
...presentation (to the public rather than to Parliament first), but few dared to challenge the facts and figures of what Giscard calls "a sincere balanced budget, without any tricks or guile." In the land of Descartes, where the class prize begins in kindergarten and the race is to the swiftest synopsis, the elegant, aristocratic Giscard has been winning prizes all his life as the fastest brain in town. Born to wealth and name, Giscard zipped through France's best schools, became a member of the elite inspecteurs des finances, was only 35 when De Gaulle named him Finance Minister...
Collecting those quotes may not have been Mabley's most important accomplishment, but it brought the swiftest results of his career. The newspaper that carried the judge's remarks hit the newsstands by 9 a.m. By 1 p.m., Judge Wosik had been transferred to the much less busy civil court. The transfer was, in fact, so quick that late editions of the paper that same day carried a frontpage bulletin on the judge's shift as well as Mabley's column. "The poor choice of language upset us," admitted Francis Poynton, executive assistant to the chief...