Word: quickest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wait and formally negotiate a long range agreement with Britain might have forced Kennedy and McNamara to go through the same embarrassing and time-consuming performance that they had undergone the year before. The quickest course was to confront the British government with an unchangeable situation, let Macmillan work himself into a desperate frame of mind, and then present him with Polaris missiles, a gift he accepted with practically no delay...
...life on the river remains much as it was in the days when Mark Twain leaned out of a filigreed pilothouse to spot his passage. But some things have changed. Nowadays, when rivermen hit New Orleans after the 18-day voyage down from Pittsburgh, they rush to make the quickest turnaround possible with new cargo bound upriver, often leave within a couple of hours...
...Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist," sniffs Packer Coach Lombardi. "Football is two things. It's blocking and tackling. You block and tackle better than the team you're playing, you win." To do his blocking. Lombard! has the quickest and one of the heaviest (239 Ibs. per man) offensive lines in pro football. To do his tackling, he has a sturdy, stingy defensive team that has permitted its opponents an average of only 102 yds. rushing. 127 yds. passing and 10 points a game. To spearhead the awesome...
...erase his department's $2,500,000 deficit, opened new regional offices, slashed paperwork 50%, and cut the time required to approve a new bank charter from nine months to 75 days. "Jimmy Saxon," said one top U.S. banker, "is the kind of man who figures the quickest way to get into the next room is to go through the wall...
Plucky Myopic. Reckless physical bravery is often expected of Kennedy guests, and the quickest road to acceptance for an outsider is some act of dazzling physical courage. As many as three "draggers" hang onto life preservers towed behind the Kennedy sloop Victura. The stiffer the breeze, the better the sport-since the dragger thus swallows more waves and finds it harder not to drown...