Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jewish Agency laid before the U.N. Palestine Commission detailed charges against British rule in Palestine. Britain, said the Jews, had "persistently yielded" to Arab violence and had helped to arm the Arabs, but had hamstrung Jewish defense efforts by searching out arms caches and disarming Jewish defense forces. "A swift assertion of lawful authority," said the statement, "can nip the evil in the bud and prevent violent movements from gathering momentum...
...fiberless present by contrasting it with her heroic past. But possibly it is also a satire about an Ireland grown languid in the present from living too much in the past-an Ireland in which everyone is so busy acting a part that no one acts. All swift scenes and no sustained story, it flares up brightly one moment, falls flat the next, and its expressionism seems dated as often as daring. But the play has much Celtic freshness of language, and the smoothness born of playing it many times...
That the restoration of this progressive doctrine after a lapse occasioned by wartime conditions should cause so much discussion is unfortunate. The Council's committee could resolve the problem neatly by making a swift report to the faculty urging the repeal of the wartime legislation and then turning its efforts to the larger questions. Taking such action would demonstrate a real understanding of the situation and a desire for an immediate end to unnecessary delays...
...Everywhere & Nowhere." The dawn was breaking beyond Turkish Thrace as the patrol, swinging back toward headquarters by another route, clattered into Kalamokastron. Here, the chagrined Greek captain discovered, the Andartes had raided that very night but had left hurriedly when the grapevine-remarkably swift for an area without formal communications-brought news that the patrol...
Cause. The reasons for the break were obvious. The swift rise in grain prices in the last year had been caused chiefly by 1) huge Government buying for export, and 2) fears of a poor U.S. grain crop this year. Now the Government has almost completed its buying. Furthermore, 1948 crop prospects have turned out to be good, both here and abroad, and they are getting better all the time. Australia and Argentina last month shipped two and a half times as much wheat as in the same period a year before. France expects to double her 1947 crops. Russia...