Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right mind would believe it ... And last, the driveling of Diana Barrymore. She observes . . . that women are no damn good ("They should be struck regularly, like a gong") . . . She doesn't need to be struck like a gong. Not at all. What she needs is a good, swift kick...
...conquerors' remedy was the one Lenin had prescribed for Russia: speedy industrialization. With the same ruthless disregard for human life which characterized Stalin's carrying out of the Leninist injunction, they pursued this end: farmlands were collectivized, workers brutally regimented, living standards depressed. Last week, in a swift move that had overtones of the great Moscow turnabout of the '20s, the Hungarian Communists reversed their program...
...17th century Shrike (left) is a much later, secular offshoot of Zen drawing. With the swift and eager precision of a swordsman, the artist evoked all autumn in a fierce little bird perched atop a dead branch. Looking into their catalogues, gallerygoers noted without great surprise that Miyamoto Niten was in fact a samurai as famed for his swordsmanship as for his brushwork...
Under the stress of such 20th century imperatives as industrialization, swift-flowing traffic and civic cleanliness, many fine old institutions have been erased from the Mexico City scene. Gone are the dog sellers of Madero Avenue, the guitar-strumming trios who once worked the suburban bus lines, the evangelistas (professional letter writers) who held forth in a plaza near the presidential palace. The mosaic-tiled promenades in the parks, where boy met girl in evening roundabout strolls as stylized as ballet, are deserted; nowadays, boy blows auto horn summoning dark-eyed beauty to drive off to the nearest cabaret...
...sets of red and green poles. Boats had to pass the poles to right or left, according to color. Young Erich Seidel, Germany's white-water and slalom champion, threaded his kayak skillfully through the course and won with ease, while several less-practiced contestants upset in the swift water. Then the boatmen got a briefing on the main race. Besides the two Germans, there were three French entries, a dozen Americans. Their paddle-powered craft: a two-man canoe, three rubber rafts, a two-man kayak and eight single-seater kayaks. Boatmen who preferred to race unencumbered...