Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smart, swift, hard-hitting Russian diplomacy had done it again. One week after Rumania, Finland was out of the war.† In Moscow the Finnish armistice terms were signed by Foreign Minister Enckell for Finland and for Russia by Andrei Zhdanov, president of the Leningrad Soviet and Joseph Stalin's heir apparent...
Rammed by another ship during a fog, June 15, 1943, the Humphrey, loaded with 22,000 tons of iron ore, had gone down in the swift, treacherous current of the Straits of Mackinac, connecting Lakes Michigan and Huron. Lying in 80 feet of water, with her pilothouse only 15 feet below the surface, she was a menace to navigation in the heavily traveled, four-mile-wide channel. Marine experts said nothing could be done; the depth and current made her salvage impossible. Even the Normandie* they pointed out, had flopped over in only 40 feet, and well away from...
...this job was called, in governmental gobbledygook. Predetermination of Contract Cancellation. That jawbreaker meant something quite simple: war contractors can now pretend that their contracts have actually been canceled. Thus they can clear out of the way much of the time-eating labor that would hold up a swift shift to making peace goods...
...Cherbourg, where the Germans, in their thorough way, had wrecked the breakwater, the 25,000 engineering troops had sunk a string of concrete barges. One of the worst storms the French coast has seen in years washed them ashore. With swift improvisation dozens of emptied Liberty ships were anchored bow to stern, and their sea cocks opened; the scuttled ships formed a new sea wall. A few days after the first ship docked at Cherbourg, the first train pulled out with supplies. By last week, 20 trains were leaving daily. Quays, warehouses and cranes had been installed, oil storage tanks...
...Swift and elusive, they penetrated enemy territory almost at will, harassed outposts, kidnapped officers, captured fabulous booty. More important, their accurate reconnaissance figured in some of the South's major victories. Ranger Mosby is a brisk, readable account of their adventures and of their extraordinary leader...