Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quick glance, they seemed to be good propositions for everybody. Ford's mandatory payments of 8 3/4?-an-hour a worker would go into a fund administered by an insurance company, would supplement the 1 1/4?-an-hour insurance program already in effect. After 30 years of service at age 65, workers would be paid enough out of the fund to give them a $100-a-month pension, counting in their Social Security. As Social Security increased, Ford's part of the obligation would decrease. Ford could count on a lessening of its labor turnover; workers could look...
...Raschi put the Yanks on top with a dozen quick wins before the arrival of his nemesis, mid-summer heat. He finished up the season strong, winning his twenty-first Sunday over the Red Sox in the game that gave the Yanks the flag; he completed 21 games, lost...
Inevitable Day. Despite the first quick sense of shock, the news made no essential change at all in U.S. relations with Russia. Like U.S. scientists, U.S. planners had well known that the day must inevitably come-and soon-when Russia would have the bomb. "Ever since atomic energy was first released by man," wrote the President, "the eventual development of this new force by other nations was to be expected. This probability has always been taken into account...
...neat, brisk figure always dressed in immaculate black, was presiding with proud relish when he got the news of the year. A U.S. correspondent passed him a note: "President Truman has just announced that Russia has the atom bomb. Amen." Trygve Lie, at Romulo's side, scribbled a quick reply: "If true, it makes the U.N. all the more indispensable." Then he sat back to await Andrei Vishinsky's scheduled address...
Barber uses the phoned reports to bridge the switch-overs from one "live" broadcast to another. By rotating in quick two-minute jumps, he can pick his spots so that a game comes on the air when a touchdown is imminent. It all adds up, says Barber, "to a panoramic view of the American football scene." Further, the Roundup eliminates the endless time-outs and the dull halftime period...