Word: swiftly
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Eisenhower said, "Monty's suggestion is simple: give him everything, which is crazy." Roosevelt and Marshall would not have stood for an arrangement that left a British general in charge of the much larger American forces. Eisenhower did not trust Montgomery to carry out the kind of swift, dashing warfare he was promising; the British general had shown no flair for it in his slow but successful tracking of Rommel across North Africa or his long pause in front of Caen. Nor could Eisenhower have shut down the hard-charging U.S. First and Third Armies to let the senior British...
...families of John Wayne Gacy's victims, his death was long anticipated. Just past midnight last Tuesday, the man who tortured and murdered 33 young men and boys during the 1970s would be executed by lethal injection at the Stateville penitentiary in Joliet, Illinois. Justice would be served, swift and clean, as three chemicals were introduced intravenously into his bloodstream. The first drug would knock him out, the second would suppress his breathing, the last would stop his heart. The procedure would take no more than five minutes. But Gacy would take 18 minutes to die. A clog developed...
...some point, someone somewhere will seriously test Clinton's stomach for sending Americans in harm's way. Invading Haiti, which could be a relatively swift affair if properly executed, could demonstrate Clinton's ability to use force for a good cause, and help assure that the thousands of Haitians eager for freedom stay put -- a twofold accomplishment...
...Bosio (1-4) at Chicago Bere(2-1) Minnesota10:35 Deshais (2-3) at Kansas City Cone (5-1) California10:35 Langston (1-0) at Texas Hellling (3-0) NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia7:35 Schilling (0-5) at Atlanta Maddux (5-2) Colorado7:35 Harkey (0-3) at SanFrancisco Swift (4-3) Pittsburgh7:35 Neagle (2-4) at Florida Weathers (5-1) New York7:40 P. Smith (2-3) at Montreal Martinez(1-3) Chicago8:05 Young (1-2) at St. Louis Tewksbury (6-0) Houston8:05Reynolds (1-0) at Los AnGeles Angeles Astacio (1-3) Cincinnati10...
...Wilson, 60, whose long-shot challenger in the Republican primary is computer tycoon Ron Unz, 32, cannot be written off. The bland but scrappy Governor, who a year ago suffered a record-low 15% approval rating, has rebounded on the strength of swift action during the brush fires in October and November and the earthquake in January. Wilson's own explanation for his resurgence takes note of Brown's new tack. "People are paying attention to real issues. And those are the ones upon which I have been visible," he says, citing his efforts to create jobs and legislate longer...