Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President s brief, blunt remark was deliberate understatement. For months trie Cuban skies have belonged to U S photo planes-soaring, diving, circling appearing and disappearing on swift, unexpected tangents. Diplomats may still argue about on-site inspection of Cuban missile bases, but the question is almost academic. Under the prying eyes of U S aerial cameras. Cuba lies as exposed as a nude in a swimming pool...
Dermatologists at Kaiser Foundation Hospital discovered that both mother and son had been infected with a microbe that is close kin to the bacillus of tuberculosis. Theirs were the first reported cases, say Dr. Sheldon Swift and Harold Cohen in the New England Journal of Medicine, in which a fish tank served as the incubator. The germ, undiscovered until the early 1950s, had previously been found nourishing only in swimming pools. There it has caused several outbreaks of what has usually been called simply sore elbow...
Nobody knows how many cases of swimming-pool elbow or fish-tank finger may have gone undetected. "Swimming pools and fish tanks." says Dr. Swift, "constitute giant culture bowls-in both, water is being constantly recirculated and kept at certain temperatures that might happen to be suitable for the growth of the bacilli." Temperature seems to be a critical factor. In the laboratory, the bacilli grow poorly in a cool medium or at blood heat, do best at around 80°. That is in the temperature range of the exposed elbows and hands where they form abscesses...
Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan desperately needed a swift settlement. Buffeted by defeats in recent by-elections, Macmillan's Tories now faced a redoubled onslaught from the Labor Party, whose leader, Hugh Gaitskell, declared last week, "There is no overriding necessity for Britain's entry." Gaitskell charged that the U.S., which is not prepared to see the "disappearance of America as an independent nation," is acting hypocritically in urging Britain to surrender its sovereignty in a united Europe...
...couple of little holes for the arms, a medium-sized one for the head and a big one for two legs to stick out of." Nothing quite so simple swivels heads in the streets; nor is the straight shift likely to turn strong men helpless after one swift glance. But to the thousands of American women who are just not quite ready yet for chartreuse face powder or the octagon look, the shift is a welcome and comfortable trend to latch...