Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate, the Administration's attempt to give the Taft-Hartley Act a swift knockout collapsed. The Labor and Public Welfare Committee had been holding day & night sessions to speed the repealer bill, finally had to extend public hearings for two more weeks. It was a serious blow to labor. Many labor contracts will come up for renegotiation in April, and labor had hoped that by then a modified Wagner Act would have replaced the Taft-Hartley Act on the books. That now looked unlikely...
Last week's production accepted, indeed courted, Richard as melodrama. Everything was painted in bold primary colors; a good deal was literally bathed in baleful crimson light. But the thing had pace and a certain crude excitement, and Richard Whorf's usurper, limping of foot and swift of brain, was enjoyably malign. There was nothing subtle about any of it, and toward the end there was much that was strident; but if never anything more, it was a pretty good show...
...divide Britain up into districts and to launch a recruiting drive. His enthusiasm was shared by at least one other adult-Cane Manufacturer Eric Wildman, who had dropped in to hear Copping's manifesto at Kingsway Hall. Wildman thought the Copping thesis might bring on its own swift reactionary antithesis, with more corporal punishment than before, and great benefit to canemakers. Said he: "This is a fine advert [-isement...
...connection between all this and today's registration. But for undergraduate politicians and men below Group 8, here are a few words of explanation. Today, in Memorial Hall, everybody from A to Z is performing an operation which, in effect, is another op'nin' of another show. A few swift, sure strokes of your pen, and you have begun to play your part in that great annual drama of education known as the Spring Term...
Student car-owners have cursed the petty gendarmes who tirelessly tag cars boarded on local streets. But far more swift and dreadful adversaries awaited the unwitting drivers who lit out of Cambridge for an interterm breather...