Word: swift
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Juan Peron took satisfaction in dealing a swift kick to the men he once called "those 500 bums in the Stock Exchange." To run the new bank the Argentine strong man picked stout, fiftyish Miguel Miranda, who learned to take orders long ago as president of the government-controlled Industrial Bank. Out of their positions as head of the Stock Exchange and of the potent Industrial Union (equivalent to the National Association of Manufacturers) went Eustaquio Mendez Delfino and Luis Colombo, whose opposition to Peron's campaign-timed bonus and wage-rise decrees had not been forgiven. Into their...
...only one of England's finest lyric poets, but also one of the three or four great classical scholars of our time. His scholarly notes, reviews, letters and conversation contained a deftness of wit which Pope could hardly equal, and blasts of virulence which Swift could hardly surpass. But the anniversary chiefly celebrates Housman's poetry. Why has it been so much loved, by so many; and how, after 50 years, does it stand...
Despite its loud gloom, its indecent crowding, its filth and uriniferous odors, New York City's swift, nickel-fare, 244-mile municipal subway system is the envy of other U.S. cities. This week, as every week, New Yorkers wondered...
...innocence of ideology. In Moscow manners are no substitute for Marxist morals, or elegance for Engelsian ethics. Izvestia, speaking in terms recognizable to Western criticism, denounced "the all-corrosive and therefore all-justifying irony of Wilde's esthetic principle" as being "far from the true realistic satire" of Swift and Dickens. Izvestia dubbed it "the principle of decadence," and flayed the performers for entering "so deeply into their parts that they lost their touch with reality. They seem to have forgotten whom they are portraying-who the play's heroes are in sober social reality...
...hour and 40 minutes after setting out, the 263 pent-up passengers invaded Swift Current. Most women hurried to stores, just missed the first nylon sale. They bought clothes for the family, tidbits for the table. Men & women blew themselves to a restaurant dinner, went to a hockey game, or to a movie. Some men watched a few "ends" of a curling bonspiel, took friends to the washroom for a snort or two (with a sharp lookout for the law), got tight...