Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latter had air scouts out, too. They knew that the swift, massive Renown was racing up from the British convoy. They turned off toward Sardinia, and the British resumed their pursuit of the Italian cruisers. When the Renown came up, the Italian battleships were well away toward shore. In all the smoke and scurry, the Renown could not see the effect of her shells at extreme range...
...President's assertion that loans to Britain had not yet been considered. They believed that a primary Roosevelt request of the new January Congress would be repeal of the Johnson Act, which bars new loans to debt defaulters such as Great Britain. (Foregone conclusion, observers added, was swift passage of such repeal.) How could he avoid it, they asked? There were a dozen signs that aid to Britain was the foremost Administration policy...
...Miller, Producers) was first produced on Candlemas Day, Feb. 2, 1602, in London's Middle Temple Hall, which a few weeks ago was struck by a Nazi bomb. Neither bombs nor centuries seriously alter Shakespeare's comedy. It can be richly indecent as in Measure for Measure, swift and slapstick as in The Taming of the Shrew. It can also be very mild, very mannered-as in Twelfth Night. The Guild production of the play is exquisite, but the net effect is that of a high ritual of antique jokes...
...astride a torpedo. For their tactics they went abroad, for the new PTs-some 70 ft. of hull enclosing 4,500 h.p. in three engines- are designed for a job new to the U. S. Navy, old stuff to the British, Italians and Germans. The PTs are made for swift dashes into harbors, hit-&-run jabs into enemy fleets. Their four torpedoes give them half the striking power of some of the newer 1,500-ton destroyers, yet they are manned by a crew of only nine, including one officer. For crews they need men who have the make...
...away and long ago: "Yet now I am sitting here, at a strange table in an alien land, painfully evoking the memory of a world that has been submerged into the past. . . ." Like Scheherazade and O. Henry, Werfel is not afraid to use language decoratively: ". . . The morning came on swift feet and looked down upon us with astonished eyes!" Nor to ornament his narrative with observations: "Man, in accordance with his gloomy disposition, has far greater power to visualize horror than to visualize delights. Dante's Hell is much more realistic than his Paradise...