Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven months there had been eight passenger train pile-ups on the three main lines running down the east coast to Florida resorts-the Seaboard, Atlantic Coast Line and Florida East Coast Railway. Three of the wrecks were in North and South Carolina, where the swift streamliners slide through the night...
...bombs through a window. A whole section of the building collapsed in the explosion. A similar, simultaneous assault was made on the Jaffa police station. In Tel Aviv one objective was the Royal Engineers' Armory. Terrorists and troops (both sides wearing British uniforms and steel helmets) fought a swift, confused battle in the dark. In the three attacks at least ten were killed and 13 wounded. The two senior police officers of Palestine barely escaped with their lives...
...Lewis Burrie Swift, president of Rochester's Taylor Instrument Cos., which turned out 40,000 instruments for Oak Ridge, more than had been needed in the synthetic rubber and high octane programs combined...
...unusual feature of "Dream Girl" is its free treatment of the time element. Although it proceeds chronologically, hours sometimes pass in the course of a few minutes. Rice doesn't try to account for every second, and the swift-moving hours give the play a streamlined effect...
...remembers the texture of things - a squirrel's fur, the thickening of a horse's mane in the frost, the glint of armor and the impact of wind on the pennons in the van. The imagery is swift, the pen races the thought, the heart beats time, the invention never falters, but be neath and around all this there is an atmosphere of tender pity, of universal friendliness, of how mellow a wisdom, how golden a simplicity...