Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JONATHAN SWIFT, by Nigel Dennis. A clinical closeup of the most powerful ironist in British letters, who was also the blackest of all the great blackguards to lacerate man's conscience, until his own raging soul sank into stupor and lunacy...
...when, as a member of the 130-man Communist Central Committee, he shrewdly backed Khrushchev's bid for power, shortly thereafter became one of Nikita's two First Deputy Premiers and heir apparent; his decline started in 1963 when his hard-line anti-Yugoslav attitude brought a swift and angry rebuke from Khrushchev, after which his illness dropped him from the front ranks, and eventually from public view altogether...
...JONATHAN SWIFT, by Nigel Dennis. The horror and tragedy of the God-haunted cleric who was English literature's most powerful ironist, consummately examined by a noted contemporary British satirist...
Parker's intention was to further integrate the club and college programs to improve American rowing, but when his nomination was construed as a "power grab" he withdrew--as did Coach Dutch Schoch of Princeton and Coach Charles Swift of Exeter--and the incumbents were reelected...
Labor argues that the industry is a camouflaged monopoly that has grown inefficient behind the cover of government-sponsored price control. As Labor sees it, the industry needs the swift reorganization that only the state can provide. While Tories and Liberals concede the truth of many Labor complaints, they contend that nationalization is not only "irrelevant" to remedying them, but would also damage the whole economy by putting the nation's most important industry under a change-resistant bureaucracy...