Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grass & Insecticide. To Westerners, the process sometimes seems as brutal as it is effective. Suspects are encouraged to talk by a rifle fired just past the ear from behind while they are sitting on the edge of an open grave, or by a swift, cheekbone-shattering flick of a Korean's bare hand. (Every Korean soldier from Commanding General Chae Myung Shin on down practices for 30 minutes each day tae kwon do, the Korean version of karate.) Once, when the mutilated body of a Korean soldier was found in a Viet Cong-sympathizing village, the Koreans tracked down...
Silent and swift as a Vulture...
...Every poet, in his kind," said Swift, "is bit by him that comes behind." Not only poets get bitten. The Hertz Corp., leading the U.S.'s 4,000-company auto-rental business with record sales of $274 million in 1965, is being at least nibbled by "We're only No. 2" Avis...
...Kiev and Volgograd-formerly Stalingrad-the pace was as swift, the Russian phrases as fluent, and the overtones of history as frequent as they had been throughout the tour. Standing with Soviet Artillery Boss Marshal Nikolai Voronov on Mamaev Hill, where the Russians turned the tide at Stalingrad, De Gaulle peered through thick spectacles at the map of the battlefield. "Ask Voronov how he organized his artillery," De Gaulle asked the interpreter. After the reply, De Gaulle said approvingly: "You are a great artillerist." Still he refused to lay a wreath at the Stalingrad memorial. That recalled his comment...
...about modern literature. I didn't want to use all my energies explaining dramatic techniques rather than doing them." He switched to Anglo-Saxon thesis work after abandoning an 18th Century project. "I was supposed to edit the papers of an 18th Century Earl who was a friend of Swift and Pope. But they usually consisted of 'I dined with Mr. Pope and Dean Swift last night. I was in my usual good form.' Absolutely nothing about Swift...