Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Downhill Road? In England, chafing for action, the news about WPB was greeted exuberantly. Cried London headlines: U.S. PLAN IS NOW FOR SWIFT VICTORY; WIN IN 1942. Winston Churchill said that the United Nations could now see the top of the ridge beyond which lay the road to victory...
...public immorality that went with bootlegging came back to the U.S., in one swift week. Citizens, thousands of them, chiseled or lied to their rationing boards, drove off with X cards and 6-3 cards- giving them more than those who could not or would not think up reasons why they should be given preferential treat-ment during...
...registrar to photographers to technical department and finally to a gallery or the storeroom. This latter, a spacious hall in the basement, already contains hundreds of miscellaneous items from the chair President Conant sits in at Commencement and the University's Great Salt to a bottle with Dean Swift's seal on it and the mace from the Irish parliament, which has been stored there since the World's Fair...
...Admiral Nimitz could thank his task-force commanders, sea dogs like bushy-browed Vice Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr., a naval aviator who knows the potency of the swift attack, sighted and powered from the air; and scholarly Rear Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, who helped give the Jap a mauling in the Marshall Islands raids. These and others were the men who carried out his tasks: broad-stripers like Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley, new commander in New Zealand, and Vice Admiral Wilson Brown, onetime Superintendent of the Naval Academy and now Commander of the Pacific Scouting Force...
...pool table which "the dear Sisters had seen no reason for removing." Says Author Chase: "It was a pretty sight to see Mother Mary Agnes, who shot a mean ball, leaning backward over the table, her veil slightly askew, while with her cue tucked under her arm she aimed swift and true for the corner pocket...