Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rarely has a Supreme Court decision caused such swift, tumultuous reaction. Late one night last week, the gavel pounded and pounded again in the Georgia state house of representatives. Dozens of lawmakers were shouting: "Mistuh Speakuh! Mistuh Speakuh!" The clock was fast approaching midnight on Feb. 21, the hour and day of statutory adjournment of the Georgia legislature. But adjournment was out of the question. At stake was the necessity of readjusting Georgia's outrageously malapportioned U.S. congressional districts...
Enthralled by Lawyers. Johnson's father once served as county judge, and young Frank loved to sit in the local courtroom and listen to lawyers argue their cases. "I was enthralled," he remembers. His rise in the law was swift: he went from small-town practitioner to U.S. Attorney in 1953, and two years later President Eisenhower named him a district judge. He was then 37, one of the youngest federal judges in the nation...
When he finally does go to bed and tries to sleep, the city dweller has to contend with the incessant noises. Sub urbanites are not much better off, and the remotest home on the range may lie under the path of roaring jet airliners -the same swift giants that carry a man halfway around the world in half a day, and throw his built-in waking-and-sleeping clock out of kilter...
...Dartmouth, the Crimson cindermon won all but two events and set a new two-mile relay record, 3:16.2, with Jim Smith, Jim Swift, Neil Houston, Charles Redman running the four legs...
...swift three hours, the Radcliffe conference attempted to explore the gamut of problems presented by the content and approach of the University's General Education program. The meeting, sponsored semi-annually by the Radcliffe Government Association, could not plunge as deeply into the problem as the one-and-a-half year old Doty Committee, but they made some soundings...