Word: quickest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When bloodhounds (antisyphilitic "magic bullets") are set upon Corky, he realizes that he must make a mad dash through the body, decides that the quickest way is to get into the heart and get pumped around. So he latches on to the first blood cell that floats by and puts an outboard motor on it. At Mucosa, where he finds his cohorts blasting out a skin eruption, he embarrasses them by using the naughty, half-forbidden word, syphilis. He is reminded: "We don't mention the word among ourselves, and brother, we get around...
...Archipelago. Brazilians like to point out that their vast country is really an archipelago of widely scattered population islands that only airlines can tie together. It used to take 13 days, by the quickest transportation, to get from Rio to Manaus near the mighty Amazon. Now, with stops along the way, flying boats and land planes cover the 2,000 miles in two days. Planes cut the distance to doctors in a country short of skilled specialists. A hundred lively aero-clubs, sponsored by the Government, have brought planes to many parts of Brazil before the motorcar; some 600 airfields...
What would bring out the grain? Government analysts and traders who know the farmer best believed that the quickest solution would be higher ceiling prices for grain and light-to medium-weight hogs. But the Government had pledged that there would be no such lifts at the expense of the U.S. public...
...news stories of more than local interest, but to keep us constantly filled in on what people in their sections are doing, saying, thinking. And you may be sure that these correspondents never fail to jack us up when we get off the beam; they are, in fact, our quickest, toughest critics...
...disconcerting as the force's lack of balance. Approximately 60,000 of the A.A.F. next spring will be gunners. Pilots, who have generally collected the most points, are leaving in droves. The smart, self-reliant youngsters whom A.A.F. would most like to keep are the quickest to leave; they are not afraid to try civilian life...