Word: swiftness
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Skyjackers are the greatest threat to travel since bandits roamed the Old West. With astonishing impunity, the pirates of the skies are able to take over the swift vehicles that represent the most advanced developments of modern technological civilization. Less and less often are the culprits misfits and former mental patients seeking psychic as well as physical escape. Increasingly, they are dedicated, vicious political fanatics, who have discovered that one of the most vulnerable points of the developed world is a jetliner at an altitude...
...bound to do so, and the leftist parties control by far the largest bloc of votes in Congress. The Congressmen must bear in mind, however, that if they put a Communist-backed President into office, the army may decide to enter its own ballot in the form of a swift coup...
...animal is as old as humankind. It can be discerned in the rituals of primitive tribes, the fables of Aesop and the tales of the Grimm Brothers. As society grows more sophisticated, so do the stories, which progress from the wishful to the satiric, from the leisurely to the Swift. In Anatole France's Penguin Island, for example, birds are used to mock the church. In George Orwell's Animal Farm, the target is Communist society...
...swift price rise lined the pockets of many speculators; one corn-pit operative made $500,000 in paper profits. Many farmers face severe financial reverses. Sadly surveying the infestation of the 600 acres of corn that he and his son are raising in Indiana's Gibson County, Melvin Pflug, 52, estimates that only half of it will be worth harvesting. "We'll be lucky if we have enough corn to pay our fertilizer bill," he said...
Idea's Beauty. The secret of the swift, silent ride is simple magnetism. Even before World War I, a farsighted French inventor, Emile Bachelet, demonstrated the feasibility of lifting railroad cars slightly off the track and propelling them forward with strong electromagnetic forces. The beauty of Bachelet's idea was that it virtually eliminated rail friction. But the technology of that day was unable to produce sufficient electricity at a low enough cost...