Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...religions. What Lewis contributes is a childlike simplicity (not to be confused with naivete) that is the essence of the Christian spirit, and which pierces all obscuring subterfuges of thought and language to fix and define the simple moral and religious points he is making. He also contributes a swift humor that humanizes what might otherwise be bald homilies...
...political reasons the Russian communiques disdained the word "Poland" (see p. 18). They spoke, instead, of gains "in the direction of Sarny." On the pre-1939 map, Sarny lay deep within Poland's Pripet Marshes, 35 miles beyond the Russian frontier. By week's end a swift-moving (150 miles in a fortnight) column of General Nikolai Vatutin's First Ukrainian Army stood almost at the city's gates. In a region of few roads, many forests and lakes, Sarny is a traffic hub. Through it passes a main north-south railway; without it, the Wehrmacht...
Since the summer of 1941 hardy British countrymen, inured to many a shock of World War II, have been startled out of their wits on various occasions by the swift and noisy visitations of a friendly but seemingly insane aircraft...
...Bike. Robinson's men can do a swift and objective job of reporting. When the 45th first went into action in Sicily, its News .staff went along. Mauldin cycled to beachhead ships to fetch news from their radios and personal experiences of the men. Result: first Allied invasion edition in Sicily, a hand-pressed single sheet. Moving up, the News soon had another extra, delivered by ration box. The headline: "Benito Finite...
...Gleam. In Chicago, President John Holmes of Swift & Co. promised that the postwar world would have an eskimo pie with a shatterproof coat...