Word: swift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capital city of Amman last week, where young King Hussein shakily reigns with the backing of his army and his devoted Bedouins, swift raids by spike-helmeted police rounded up all known Nasser sympathizers, as well as some 200 suspect politicians and civil servants. Who could be sure of anyone, any more? Seventy officers of the King's army are in jail, including Hussein's former close companion, Colonel Rahdi Abdullah. Anyone caught listening to Radio Cairo or to the vicious noise of the clandestine "Jordan People's Radio" was hustled off to prison...
...Goddess. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky and Actress Kim Stanley delivering a roaring diatribe against the Bitch Goddess, Success, at a pace that is sometimes slow, but in a tone that is marvelously Swift (TIME, July...
With school out, a scholarly, wide-eyed NBC trainee was down in Washington rubbing notebooks with the swift, sure newshands on the White House beat. The apprentice: TV Quiz Winner ($129,000) and Columbia University Instructor Charles Van Doren. His first report: "It's a little frightening...
...Dean Swift. In New Hamburg, Ont., Walter Haas was arrested for careless driving, explained that he was only trying to catch another speeder to lecture him on safety...
...Goddess. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky and Actress Kim Stanley delivering a roaring diatribe against the Bitch Goddess, Success, at a pace that is sometimes slow, but in a tone that is marvelously Swift (TIME, July...