Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swift Completion. In Washington, the Interior Department mailed a penny postcard to a man in nonexistent "Harrisia," N.J., got it back 56 years later. In Yonkers, N.Y., repairmen found a bundle of postmarked, undelivered letters in the railroad station, turned them over to the postoffice for delivery-17 years after they were mailed...
...Speaker began his swift reading of the Government measures. Shouts of "No . . . No ... I say No, sir!" broke into his drone. Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, the humorist who finds parliamentary didos far from funny, was angrily shouting and waving his arms to rally the Opposition benches. From Labor's benches came a howl of "Miaow . . . miaow." In a moment the chamber was in uproar. But the Speaker droned on. Many Conservative and Liberal M.P.s stalked out in disgust at this unprecedented scene of legislation being pushed through to the accompaniment of undignified howling...
Apparently, said one correspondent, the Russians' first experience with large-scale, uncensored coverage of Russia by the Allied press "affected the Government hierarchy just about as pleasurably as a swift kick in the groin. "And though the people who irritated them most have departed, I'm sure they still hurt all over, and this soreness isn't helped any by the generally fruitless atmosphere in which the conference closed. As a result, the correspondents who stayed behind in Moscow probably face an indeterminate period of aggravated suspicion, noncooperation and stupidly rigorous censorship -a tougher censorship than before...
...once they have passed through the vast and lonely country that is now Nebraska and the Dakotas, Teal Eye runs away. Three days later the Indians attack and kill all the party except Boone, Jim and sardonic Dick Summers, a man swift and animal-sensitive, who ranks as the most vivid scout in literature since Natty Bumppo, in James Fenimore Cooper's Leather-Stocking Tales...
...pair of swift double-plays by the Elephants wiped out two budding Deacon rallies, and along with them any hopes for victory. While hitting never rose above the ordinary, good steady patroling in the outfield and dazzling infield performances kept Leverett scoring down, while Eliot overcame a two-run deficit...