Word: swift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Attackman Ned Yost bumped the ball away from a New Hampshire defenseman and shoveled it to Bill Plissner. Plissner cut down the sideline, them fed a sharp lead to Yost, who put a swift drive into...
...start a world war MacArthur retorted emphatically: "I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting . . . But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War's very object is victory...
MacArthur: Yes. "Once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision...
Weekends, the Auriols stay in a secluded, six-room, one-telephone hunting lodge in the forest at Marly-le-Roi, near Versailles. But every August, for a real vacation, they go back to the rose-walled house in Muret, close by the swift-flowing Louge. This is the France which Vincent Auriol, with a Frenchman's passion for the soil, loves best...
...Brown, who also does not belong. He is a Negro who wants to preserve his self-respect (in a Georgia town), to take his natural place in the world of men--to be a "member of the world." Both his and Frankie's attempts to solve their problems by swift action are bound to be failures: Frankie cannot go away with her brother and sister-in-law, Honey cannot achieve self-respect by refusing to say "sir" to Frankie's father. Later, both attempt more violent solutions on the same night: Frankie by running away, Honey by slashing...