Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Henry Kaiser, right out of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he has been tackling tough jobs. At 26, he was put in charge of a $20 million job on Cuba's Central Highway. Bedford then straw-bossed the building of Bonneville Dam, a project made so hazardous by the swift Columbia River that no bonding company would have anything to do with it. After doing the same job at Grand Coulee Dam, in 1940, he was made boss of Kaiser's four West Coast shipyards, even though he had never seen a ship launched...
...Moffie, swift Crimson football star of two years ago, has been appointed backfield coach of the Brandeis University eleven, it was learned yesterday...
...used to be that budding intellectuals like Evans became casualties of the left, and fell for Communist propaganda. Evans is a casualty of the right. Fortunately for him, his cure will be swift if I know my University of Maryland faculty. I can see them gently destroying the hokum he will write in his proposed master's thesis, Truman and Stalin at Potsdam...
...Pentagon is more closely guarded than the Joint Chiefs' area. The original wall-boarding has been torn out and replaced with sheet steel. Somewhere in this area, its exact location secret, is the J.C.S. War Room. Entrance is through double steel doors operated by buzzers. For swift communication the Chiefs use one of the Pentagon's telecon rooms, where incoming messages are decoded and flashed on a glass screen and the outgoing replies appear on another screen beside them. Four-way conversations can thus be carried on with points as far apart as Tokyo, London and Berlin. Deep...
...first four rounds Williams fought with the assurance of a champion, deftly blocking Carter's bullish charges, jabbing and stabbing with lefts, uppercutting swift rights. But for all Williams' style, the blows bounced off dogged Jimmy Carter like pingpong balls. The Ike Williams zip, which had stiffened nearly half of his 137 opponents, was gone...