Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This caused us little inconvenience, however, because an unknown computer operator had previously discovered that one swift kick at the center of the random access unit and precisely two feet off the floor would keep the computer still for weeks. Familiarity does breed contempt -even for computers...
...change since then in American life has never been more apparent than last week, when Congress acted on two bills that projected a new sort of welfare state beyond Roosevelt's wildest dreams. First, the House of Representatives passed and sent to the Senate, where it faces certain swift approval, the Johnson Administration's $6 billion-a-year medicare bill. The next day the Senate passed and sent to the President to be signed into law the $1.3 billion aid-to-education bill...
...Cassidy's terrible anger may set audiences to sniggering a bit, especially after his unbelievably swift rise in the Irish literary world ruled by Lady Gregory (Dame Edith Evans) and Poet W. B. Yeats (Michael Redgrave). On the riotous opening night of The Plough and the Stars, the historic disturbance inside the Abbey Theatre somehow seems less crucial than the playwright's muscular performance in the outer lobby, where Taylor enthusiastically flattens a couple of idlers, rounding out Cassidy's unfinished portrait of the artist as a young tough...
...minutes Soviet Cosmonaut Aleksei Arkhipovich Leonov drifted and spun through dreamlike gyrations while he followed the spaceship Voskhod II in its swift, elliptical path around the distant earth. Then, as easily and efficiently as he had emerged from his ship, Leonov climbed back inside. After 15 more orbits, he and his comrade, Colonel Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, began the long flight home...
...seemed to be simmering down, a handful of cause-hunting students and some off-campus beatniks suddenly began shouting obscene words into a public-address system at Sproul Hall and displaying them on signs. The reaction of Berkeley police against what quickly got dubbed the "filthy speech movement" was swift: nine demonstrators were arrested (six turned out not to be registered students...