Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane lifted into the darkness, bound for disaster. Just beyond the field's edge, the right wing dipped; men on the ground saw its green starboard light go down slowly, then sharply, had a swift vision of the pilots fighting for control over what seemed a power failure. Cocoa was gone; its right wing dug into the ground as its uplifted left wing snapped into high tension wires strung 70 ft. above the ground. About 45 seconds after the big aircraft had begun rolling, it skittered through fields, bounced across the Massachusetts Turnpike, exploded with a shattering roar...
During Dag Hammarskjold's swift peacemaking mission to the Middle East last week, somebody in Beirut, who knew he was coming, baked him a cake. Presented at the presidential palace, the cake bore these words: "United Nations Save Lebanon." Commented the world's No. 1 international civil servant: "Only the Lebanese can save Lebanon...
...Finisterre, the victory was a kind of vindication. Ever since her swift, shallow hull lines were laid down on the drawing board of noted Naval Architect Olin Stephens four years ago, competitors have complained that she was nothing but a rule beater. She was designed, said her detractors, to take advantage of loopholes in the ocean-racing handicap rule, getting such a large time advantage over sounder, abler craft with conventional deep keels that no one could catch her. In response to this complaint, the Cruising Club of America revised its calculations, sent Finisterre off for Bermuda with a shortened...
...baseman; in action, he seems determined to prove himself a one-man ball club. He ranges after flies as widely as any outfielder, charges bunts with such breakneck energy that sore-backed First-Baseman Ted Kluszewski is left lumbering in his wake. He handles the double-play with the swift hands of a professional pickpocket. "He doesn't catch that ball," says one of his fans. "He just guides it toward first base...
...cities in 27 lands, Qantas is one of the few government-owned lines that is run like a private business, has never failed to turn a tidy profit. Qantas could hardly fail, since Australia is isolated from the rest of the world and planes are the only means of swift travel. This year it expects to gross at least $70 million, with a net profit of $2,000,000, both up close to 40% since...