Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...special military powers and was especially designed to provide a fast, hard-hitting counter to any pattern of scattered, simultaneous outbreaks that the Communists, or anyone else, might devise. At Bergougnan the Compagnie de Sécurité received a baptism of sulphuric acid, but it won a swift, decisive victory...
...this week Chen had again proved his catlike ability to survive disasters. In a series of swift, well-timed drives, slashing behind the Nationalist lines, he had won back nearly all of Shantung. General Wang Yao-wu, the Nationalist provisional governor, was bottled up in his capital at Tsinan. Chen's surging armies threatened to burst out of the province and imperil the entire shaky Nationalist defense system in Central China...
...retired after 22 years, Smith College searched hard for a successor (TIME, Oct. 30, 1939). British-born, Oxford-educated Herbert John Davis took the job with misgivings: "What can the man do that cometh after the king?" Like Neilson, Davis had been an English professor (his specialty: Jonathan Swift); Smith trustees hoped to see the Neilson miracle reworked. But in eight years as president, Davis proved more distinguished for his prose style than his administrative tact. Last week, at 55, Herbert John Davis announced from a Smith sickbed (appendicitis) that he would quit the presidency and go back to Lilliput...
Then violence broke out. In South St. Paul there were bloody clashes as non-strikers ran the gauntlet of massed pickets. About 300 pickets had formed a wall, eight deep, near the Swift & Co. plant's main gate. Sheriff Norman Dieter and a force of 21 cops moved up to read the law: a court order had set a limit of 18 pickets. When no one moved, the sheriff rammed his force against the wall. A few minutes later the bloody, battered cops retreated...
Welcomed to London: Lana Turner & Groom Bob Topping. The welcoming just barely came off. Newsmen summoned for an interview were kept waiting an hour, then given a gentle but swift brush-off. "Probably the . . . most humiliating press conference ever held in Britain," the British Press Association called it. So the honeymooners tried again, with Scotch & soda and smiles. One paper quoted Lana's apology: "MGM loused it up." She denied using those words, but added: "They do sound rather American...