Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final story, "In the Cockpit" by Eric Wentworth, is a tale of the physical and emotional anguish encountered by a boy on a tuna fishing expedition. Wentworth has given his story a swift pace by emphasizing the boy's progressive exhaustion as he pulls a fish up from the sea. His passages on the boy's psychological reaction to his approaching failure often seem to break the continuity of the action unnecessarily and they add a pedestrian touch to the piece...
...uses string bass and drums to give his performance more body and bounce. His arrangements (of such standards as Tea for Two and Bewitched) usually begin with gentle but full-bodied harmonizations of the tune. Then, grinning toward the crowd, he "takes off" for a chorus or two of swift-moving improvisations that feature unerring cascades of notes in the right hand and ear-teasing harmonic changes beneath. His style is not yet so distinctive that a listener could identify him blindfolded, but his razzle-dazzle endings get him a big hand...
Among the antitrust suits left over by the Truman Administration was one filed in 1948 against the meat industry's big four-Armour, Swift, Wilson and Cudahy. Charging them with monopolistic practices dating back to 1893, the Justice Department wanted to break the companies up into 14 separate firms. But when a Federal District judge banned any evidence before 1930, the meat was gone from the meatpacker case, and the Democrats left it in a sort of legal limbo for the Republicans...
Then she topples into the bed of Lieut. Colonel Rodney Savage, 13th Gurkha Rifles, who is as effective as Tom Swift in dealing with men and more effective in dealing with women. In his arms Victoria finds "peace" and "ecstasy." But since the colonel is an Englishman, that is not enough. At novel's end, Victoria goes back to her bumbling Anglo-Indian and her own people at Bhowani Junction, where "the lines spread out to every Indian horizon for them...
...mile line, northwest from Lanchow towards Russia. The Russians are building southeast to meet the Chinese. The job has Red China's top priority. "The workers are moving mountains and filling rivers at an altitude of 9,000 ft.," Peking recently crowed. "They are battling ice floes and swift currents in sub-zero weather." The Lanchow-Sinkiang will give Russia its fastest connection to the Pacific. (The Moscow-Peking journey now takes nine days via the aging Trans-Siberian Railroad and Red China's existing networks.) The new line will also give Red China its best route...