Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forested that he can travel for miles swinging from tree to tree like an 18th century Tarzan. He builds tree houses and shoots game. He climbs down to a low branch to milk a complacent goat, trains a hen to lay in a convenient place. A limb overhanging a swift-running stream makes an excellent toilet...
Jolly-ups are with us no longer, and a new battle has begun in the War between the Sexes at Harvard. No longer will the race be to the swift or the victory to the bold. Open combat has been officially outlawed. To a world already overcharged with turmoil and flux, an additional burden of anxiety has been added. From this date onward only the crafty will survive...
Like the characters in Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub, we're merely changing our garb to suit the spirit...
...faulty parts. Time and again, dealers give him their highest possible accolade; they bubble that "when Ed Cole talks to you, he makes you feel like you're talking to another dealer." Such loyalty will not hurt Ed Cole in the coming battle of the compacts and the swift changes ahead for the entire auto market...
Long-Range Penetration. Wingate's mental recovery was swift. He told his first visitors that his suicide had failed because his campaign had not been as carefully prepared as usual: he should have relaxed first with a hot bath so that his neck muscles would not have become tense, and turned the blade. Influence and nerve got him back into action. Within seven months he was sent to India, where a demoralized British army was still reeling from the loss of Burma. Wearing his accustomed sun helmet and a biblical beard, Wingate developed his theory of "long-range penetration...