Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...failed to take into account that the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong-there is always the turtle...
...Mediterranean. Premier Guy Mollet urged that the Big Three Foreign Ministers meet in Paris to discuss Middle East policies, suggested that the time was coming to ask for a U.N. embargo on the sale of arms either to Arab or Jew. Britain warned both sides that it would take "swift military action" if war broke out across the tense IsraeliArab borders. The U.S. asked...
Slip-Stick Specialist. Fangio's swift, shovel-nosed, 34-liter Ferrari had all the power and acceleration a skillful driver needs, but its conventional drum-and-shoe brakes were not designed for that demanding course. The best of Fangio's competitors had cars that seemed better fitted. Former British Champion Mike Hawthorn was at the wheel of a big (20 cc. more displacement than the Ferrari), D-type Jaguar fitted out with husky disc brakes, a type relatively unaffected by heat. Current British Champ Stirling Moss was driving a light (2.9-liter), cat-quick Aston Martin, also with...
...most memorable illustrations came at a party last fall, following the Yale game. Carroll F. (Stan) Miles, Dunster senior tutor, was engaged in a lengthy defense of St. Thomas when he was suddenly interrupted by raucous Eli taunts from outside. Retaliation was swift and sure. Miles bolted for the door, threw the first snowball,--and connected...
...probing and drawing out of these characters, top-level production aids Aaron's direction. Donald Bourne's semi-abstract setting facilitates the intrusions into Willy's mind, and with the addition of Jordan Jelke's complex and intelligent lighting, makes the many swift transitions of mood and locale neat and effective. Caldwell Titcomb's striking musical score powerfully augments these effects, and is always appropriate. Happily, considering the intricacy of the production, there is a professional polish in meeting cues which characterizes the entire play...