Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...made them forget the dull, grey weather. They heard the thunder of engines, saw the mist ripped open by a trim, broad bow, saw a tiny boat skim by, skittering off the tops of waves, pelting through others in a burst of spindrift. On her bridge they caught a quick glimpse of hooded men, goggled, drenched with spray, hanging on behind a tiny windshield. On her deck, if they got a good look, they saw four torpedoes, two glassed-in turrets housing twin machine guns. Then she was gone, a bellowing little boat that faded into the grey rain...
...building. They find out which office houses the set by using portable detector outfits, small enough to fit into a vest pocket and equipped with indicators geared to rise with proximity to the transmitter. Most such bootleg equipment is used by gamblers, who are often able, by means of quick flashes, to place last-minute bets on horse races already...
Alice was quick to catch on. She hit a tennis ball like a man, and nearly as hard. Within two years she had won the California girls' championship. At that point a keen eye noted her. Eleanor Tennant, a graduate of Golden Gate Park nearly two decades before, had been third ranking U. S. woman player when she turned teacher in 1920. Now she was the foremost woman tennis coach in the U. S. Though she got $1,000 a month from Cinemactress Marion Davies, Teacher Tennant offered to take on young Marble for nothing...
Looking on and loving it were: plump, pleasant Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman of New York; bland, swart Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Pius XII's Apostolic Delegate to the U. S. They were glad to see priests adept at quick comebacks. Said Delegate Cicognani: "The apostles preached in this way. . . . It was in the streets that Our Lord met those who were in bad need...
...Round I ended in the Senate corridors last September when the Appropriations Committee unexpectedly failed to provide $500,000 that was to start Am Ex's preliminary mail flights to Lisbon (TIME, Oct. 14). Last week, undaunted Am Ex officials rolled with this punch. Led by quick-smiling, deep-voiced Vice President James Murchie Eaton, they went to Baltimore, threw a party aboard their new ocean freighter S.S. Executor. While 60 guests ogled the boat, Am Ex bigwigs huddled with Baltimore's Mayor Jackson, trying to solve another problem: a U. S. landing place for their would...