Word: swiftness
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Safe at Sea. The Minutemen, however powerfully protected, are immobile. But the submarine-based Polaris missile relies on swift movement and concealment. The Polaris A-2 has a range of 1,725 miles, can fire at Russia or China from beneath the ocean's surface. Thus, even if a significant number of Minutemen were knocked out, virtually all the Polaris missiles would survive to strike back...
...Terrible Swift Sword, Catton...
SOME weeks ago, when the Tom Swift craze was making-or ruining-conversation everywhere, we invited readers to get in on the gag by submitting Swifties of their own, either about TIME or about advertisers. We got 15,000 entries. Last week, their senses of humor put to the supreme test, six judges led by punning Publisher Bennett Cerf announced the winners. Among them...
...feel A-l," said Tom Swift saucily...
...Terrible Swift Sword, Catton...