Word: swiftness
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...three or four books, especially selected by TIME'S editors for the importance of their ideas and the excellence of their writing. We may even award more than one prize in each category-for that's the sort of thing that one would expect of a Tom Swift. In case of duplicates, the earliest postmark will determine which one gets the prize...
Silver Shekel. Zonas does meet Hannibal, during a Carthaginian parade through a hill town. Rushing out to save his strayed donkey from being trampled by an elephant, he is rewarded with a silver shekel from the African general instead of the swift death he expected. But the coin does not lead him to great adventure. Zonas lives too prudently close to the ground for that...
Never Bend, as expected, took the lead at the start of the Preakness. Front-running No Robbery was not entered in the race, so Willie Shoemaker, on Candy Spots, knew he would have to stay close to the pace to prevent the swift New York colt from "stealing" the race. With longshot Rural Retreat running close to Never Bend, Candy Spots saved ground, about two lengths behind the loaders...
...some believe that the war may never be won. But almost everyone agrees that things have improved. Today there is little danger that the Viet Cong will take over any of South Viet Nam's cities. Captured Red documents indicate that they have given up hope of a swift conquest, now aim merely, as the guerrillas' North Vietnamese Boss Ho Chi Minh said recently, "to wait out the Americans." The South Vietnamese government and its 14,000 U.S. military "advisers" pin their hopes on an integrated, long-term plan that aims at isolating and driving out the Viet...
...Sweetness and light" was not the best of phrases even in Victorian times. Besides, Matthew Arnold had borrowed it from Jonathan Swift. But the eminent Victorian poet-critic's oft-quoted formula for mental harmony has clung to his reputation like a sugary burr. Successive generations of collegians, coming upon it in more modern times, have turned away, convinced that Arnold's comments on the world are about as relevant to the tough-minded 20th century as those, say, of Harriet Beecher Stowe...