Word: swiftly
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...appear... as if God had breathed it onto the glass," Lucy writes. Jones' breathless wonderment at the machines of modernity was next parlayed into her third novel Dreams of Speaking (2006), where academic heroine Alice is literally lost in Wonderland as she ponders "those things wired, lit, automatic and swift"-from space travel and cinema to Hedy Lamarr's invention of a radio-controlled torpedo and the horror of Hiroshima...
...Graham Swift has a secret. Lots of them, actually. In seven novels and a collection of stories, he has developed a knack for measuring out his revelations in coffee spoons, saving the best for last. Of course, Swift has a shelf full of other knacks, some nicked from Dickens, Hardy, Flaubert and other 19th century greats. Together, these skills have made him one of Britain's most celebrated novelists. But his latest, Tomorrow, is a model of delayed gratification. That's what makes it so infuriating. Like his other novels, Tomorrow deals with sex, death, betrayal, history, intergenerational conflict, love...
...clear that they would not give in so easily this time around. Connecticut College jumped out to a 3-0 lead before Harvard finally ended the run with a goal late in the first quarter. From then on, the Crimson dominated the Camels with tight defensive pressure and swift transitional scoring. By the break Harvard, had built up a 7-4 advantage that it never relinquished. ”When we woke up, things started happening,” Farrar said. Although the win was a whole team effort, the talents of the freshmen class in particular were on display...
...teenage golfing phenom named Tiger Woods. Wall Street was waiting to see what Nike would do to follow up Michael Jordan and the enormously successful Air Jordan line of footwear. When the company announced that it had signed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar deal with Woods, the reaction was swift--Nike stock fell 5%. Says Bob Wood, one of the officials in that room: "They thought we had overpaid...
...scoring a “puppy bounce” in the polls), incorporated audience-appropriate cultural references (likening her catalog of rhetorical devices to a word list from “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”), and took logistical details in stride (making a swift transition from highlighting video clips to asking for audience questions during a technical glitch). The tutorial “really went into the nitty-gritty, beyond the granular” of speechwriting, said David J. Baron ’07. It was one of the first IOP events that Baron, a physics...