Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shepilov's reply was swift and stunning. "Japan has no right," he snapped, "to raise any claim on any territory occupied by the Soviet Union." Furthermore, announced Radio Moscow, two smaller islands that Russia had previously offered to return to Japan outright would now be returned only "on certain conditions," since Japan had apparently not appreciated Russia's "magnanimous act." Shepilov also cited Yalta, where both the U.S. and Britain agreed to let the Russians grab the Kurils as part of the Russian terms for entering into what proved to be its week-long participation...
...southern reaches, the limestone mountains of the Shan States rise to almost 9,000 feet, and at its northern end, snowcapped Himalayan peaks push up to more than twice that height. At lower altitudes, an average annual rainfall of 200 inches produces thick jungle cut only by swift-running rivers and an occasional trail. Scattered through this wilderness is a confusing melange of primitive peoples-gentle Shans, timid Palaungs, and the warlike little Kachins who, under U.S. officers, harried the Japanese unmercifully throughout World War II. Most primitive of all are the wild Wa, who live in hill villages that...
While the U.S. as a whole reported 37% fewer cases in the current polio season than last year (2,295 since April 1, as against 3,613), a swift outbreak hit Chicago and suburbs. Almost every hour of every day last week, workers stuck a pin into a wall map in the office of Chicago's Health Boss Herman N. Bundesen. The red pins stood for new cases of paralytic polio, yellow for nonparalytic, black for fatal cases. By week's end there were 268 pins-166 red, 97 yellow, five black (as against 39 cases, two deaths...
...chemical Methuselahs," a burden to themselves and society? If Bortz and like-minded medicos have their way, the profession of medicine must exert itself so that men and women can go through their eighth, ninth or even tenth decades still hale and hearty, until eventually they die from a swift and general collapse of the body's metabolic processes...
Capital bought the Viscounts in 1954 because it had to have planes that could match the big, swift DC-6s and DC-7s of its rivals on the crowded New York-Washington-Chicago routes. Yet because it has few long, nonstop hauls, Capital could not operate big planes as economically as other lines. The medium-range Viscount seemed to be the answer, although, as the first foreign-made plane to fly in U.S. airlines, there was a question how it would stand...