Word: swiftness
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Creamer, senior editor of Sports Illustrated, lets his concise magazine style explode over 400 pages of detailed but swift writing. He records Ruth's on-the-field endeavors with precision and color. He carefully avoids studding his sentences with cliched codewords like four-ply and three bagger. In an uncharacteristic feat of sportswriting, he makes heavy use of the English language...
...triangle." Rooth attributes many of the disappearances to violent weather occurring suddenly over the warm water in the triangle. "It is like being hit by a tornado," he says. "Nice weather conditions in the area lull you into a sense of false security." Other experts point out that the swift current of the Gulf Stream quickly carries debris far from an accident site; "lost without a trace" thus becomes easily understandable...
Harvard crushed Yale, 8-3, in the consolation game on goals by Ted Thorndike (two), Todd Nieland, Dan Boldue, Phelps Swift, Paul Haley, captain Randy Roth and Jim McMahon...
Confusedly regular, the moving maze: Now forth at once, too swift for sight...
...supply effort has been so swift and generous that some American military units at home and in Europe have been severely squeezed. Production of the M-60 tank is limited to 40 a month, and since most of the tanks shipped to Israel have been M-60s (along with some older M-48s), American tank units are hard-pressed for vehicles. At Fort Knox, the chief tank training center in the U.S., the few tanks available are rotated from one school to another. The drain on American reserves has caused some grumbling in the Pentagon, where generals complain that...