Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while demanding locomotives, steel and heavy vehicles. As for cash, Red China's sterling balance is only some $280 million, a figure which would be quickly liquidated by shipments of rubber and expensive machinery. Even Singapore's and Hong Kong's China traders look for no swift bonanza. In recent years, China has oriented its trade, like its politics, almost exclusively toward the Soviet bloc, is not likely to shift in a hurry. Wrote Singapore's Straits Times, with only a modest cheer: "No doubt there is a tremendous potential market in China...
...rather like a great hairy carrot; it crouched there as all rats do, as soon as dusk has fallen and there is nothing to distinguish them from a lost slipper or a forgotten rag except that long worm lying along the floor . . . that suspicious-looking shoelace that will suddenly, swift as a whipped top, grow tense with terror." Gaston of the title is a black-spotted rat, as big as a rabbit, and he is stalked through the sewers of a French provincial town by the health board and its ratcatchers as assiduously as Melville's Ahab hunted...
...might be too late. "Not even an appeal by the United Nations-in the event, for example, of a serious incursion across the borders of Burma-would bring substantial British military help. It could not, because such help would be physically impossible. It is often forgotten that the swift t United Nations intervention in Korea was possible only because the Americans had fully staffed bases in Japan, not more than 200 miles away. The relinquishment of British bases round the Indian Ocean is a more serious matter for the Asian countries than for Britain...
...South's defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court's integration decision. Wrote the Chicago Tribune's Reporter Ottley: "There are Negroes who complain that progress in the North is slow. Some even drape themselves in crepe and wail. Actually, the pace is breakneck, sometimes even too swift for the people...
...minutes later, Ham Gravem, at third singles, followed with a swift 6-4, 6-0 victory over Jeff Arnold, one of the country's top junior players, and sixth man Karl Purnell blasted out a 6-1, 6-1 win over Dick Daniels to give the Crimson a 3-0 lead...