Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was urgency about this, the only significant action on the Russian front last week. Only by shoving the Finns back could the Russians free the southern end of the Murmansk-Leningrad railroad and ensure the swift flow of goods from the Arctic port to the Baltic battlefront...
Further, their dispersion was in a relatively small area: they might go out as a fleet, to destroy a superior enemy in detail. In a swift hit-&-run battle in the fogs of the North Sea, a well-fought engagement might strike a body blow to the British Home Fleet...
Skirting the center of the fire he brought five Chinese soldiers to a makeshift hospital. There, in a palm-treed courtyard on an open, unroofed stone porch, I saw a muscular white man, stripped to the waist, making swift jabs with a surgeon's knife in a struggling Chinese soldier's arm. Three Burmese 90-lb. nurses were holding down the soldier. Gas lamps strung on wires provided the only light. In the background the crackling of the fire could be heard...
...swift, powerhouse right to the Jaw knocked out Johnny Bullitt in the 135-pound quarter-finals of the National Amateur Boxing championships at the Boston Garden last night...
...Charles James Fox ("the most delightful Englishman of his time"); William Pitt (". . . passing from Fox to Pitt . . . is like leaving a lighted house where there was companionship and dancing and supper, to walk home alone through streets solemn with midnight"); Pope ("Is it 'poetry'?"); Swift ("Swift's living brain was akin to other men's in dreams"); Defoe ("Defoe was less of an artist-by circumstances, temperament, or aspiration-than almost any other great writer in the range of English letters"); Dr. Johnson ("It is very wonderful that Johnson, throughout 50 years, should have gone...