Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could call a friend. The one attempt he had made at approaching the man across the hall had been coldly, yet courtesouly, rebuffed with a short "Have we been introduced?" . . . The youth began to despair of ever making the slightest dent in campus affairs or being elected to the Swift Custard Institute of 1776." --Yale News Digest...
...something formidable and swift, like the sudden smashing of a vial of wrath. It seemed to explode all round the ship with an overpowering concussion and a rush of great waters...
...personnel. But, he added, there was going to be a survey of the Department's structure. The slow-moving State Department quivered. Everyone who knew him knew two things about Jimmy Byrnes: 1) his dislike for professional diplomats of the stuffier stripe; 2) his liking for swift, direct action...
Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift to mirth...
...British material and Chinese and Indian labor, had strung the wires, in pace with the construction of the Stilwell Road, across 1,750 miles of some of the world's toughest jungles and mountains, made tougher by Japanese gun fire. Said the New York Times: "Whether or not swift communication makes for swift understanding one doesn't know. The line may carry angry words. . . . But the Orient ... is shrinking, and this is one of the shrinkages...