Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Britain wanted, he said, swift negotiations relating only to "the small number of really important issues," such as the special problems of New Zealand trade, Commonwealth sugar and British capital movements. Of the Common Market's common agricultural policy, which, if applied in Britain, could raise food prices as much as 10%, Wilson quietly acknowledged: "We must come to terms with it." Above all, Wilson showed a determination that reflected support from both parties, from British business and from most of the country* - the kind of national approval that was lacking four years ago, in large part because...
...that, under threat of punishment, Greek youngsters must henceforth give up their seats on buses to clergymen, pregnant women and invalids. Of such stuff, apparently, is the new Greece to be built. Ruling by dictatorial decree, the junta of army officers, who three weeks ago seized control in a swift coup, pressed ahead with their plan to reshape and purify Greek life and politics...
...several areas around the world, were formed when meteorites or comets collided with the earth. The en- counters were so catastrophic that bits of the earth, as well as chunks of the intruder, were hurled into space and then fell back. Heated both by the impact and their swift passage through the atmosphere, they were fused into glassy globules...
...coup that seized Greece was so swift and efficient that most Greeks hardly knew what had happened. Last week, as the initial shock of the military take-over wore off, Greeks started to learn something about their new rulers and to adjust to life under a rigid regime...
IRELAND is celebrating the 300th anniversary of Jonathan Swift's birth and offers a $100, eight-day "literature" tour that goes to Dublin's Trinity College, Celbridge Abbey and Kilkenny City. The old sod expects a record year, including visits from Jacqueline Kennedy and 31 members of Chicago's Grandmothers' Club. Awaiting them will be everything from a $95-a-week "floatel" on the River Shannon to an army of newly popular pub balladeers and manorial dinners which will be served in medieval castles...