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Word: swifts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second time in seven weeks, the U.S. put its military power on the line to defend an ally from threat of attack. Last July's response to a cry of help from Lebanon was swift, effective and-as the world's non-Communist governments were bound to note-unchallenged by the big-talking Communists. The Chinese Communist threats to conquer Formosa, and the stepped-up attacks on the offshore Nationalist island of Quemoy (see FOREIGN NEWS), last week brought an equally powerful presidential warning that the U.S. would not hesitate to counterattack, and it brought prompt deployment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: On Call | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

Nobody Saw. Planes flew high overhead or off to the side of the square miles of human flotsam, but nobody was looking for Indy survivors, and for 84 hours nobody saw them. When they were spotted, it was by accident. Then rescue measures were swift and effective-the one aspect of the disaster that was a credit to the Navy. But only 316 (15 officers, 301 enlisted men, from a total complement of 1,196) survived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death of a Ship | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...Goddess. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky and Actress Kim Stanley delivering a roaring diatribe against the Bitch Goddess, Success, at a pace that is sometimes slow, but in a tone that is marvelously Swift (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 8, 1958 | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...Goddess. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky and Actress Kim Stanley delivering a roaring diatribe against the Bitch Goddess, Success, at a pace that is sometimes slow, but in a tone that is marvelously Swift (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 25, 1958 | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

...Goddess. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky and Actress Kim Stanley delivering a roaring diatribe against the Bitch Goddess, Success, at a pace that is sometimes slow, but in a tone that is marvelously Swift (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 18, 1958 | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

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