Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yale College faculty last week declared war on the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. It voted to take academic credit away from ROTC courses and to strip officers commanding the units of their professorial rank. Swift approval by the Yale Corporation seemed all but certain...
...land; by 1985, U.S. cities will swell by the equivalent of five New Yorks. Mobility has scattered families and eroded the continuities that once cemented local loyalties. Great organizations are now society's principal units. Knowledge is the key economic resource. Innovation seems to be salvation. So swift is the pace of modern change that, in terms of common experience, America has a new generation every five years...
...division and badly in need of some offensive punch. Coach Scotty Bowman made some quick trades and acquired Gordon ("Red") Berenson, a bench warmer for the New York Rangers. Berenson, 29, the son of a Regina, Sask., fireman, had all the makings of a top scorer. He learned his swift and violent trade as a boy, skating on the frozen ponds of his home town, but like many young pros, he had found it hard to make a dent in the talent-heavy NHL. As a teenager, he turned down several pro offers in order to earn a degree...
...Reason gave birth to England's two greatest satirists: Jonathan Swift in prose and Alexander Pope in poetry. On Quennell's showing, it is clear that Pope, who once spoke of "that long disease, my life," shared in some measure Swift's notorious horror of life itself. In Swift's case, this amounted to a pathological detestation of the bodily functions intense enough to disable the Dean from physical expression of the love he felt for women. In Pope's case, it did not prevent him from trying to play the rake at large...
...Western tourists and businessmen pass each day. In 45 minutes, the attackers wreaked an Israeli-estimated $100 million in damage. A dozen Lebanese civilian planes were destroyed or heavily damaged, hangars and fuel dumps set afire, all apparently without loss of life to either side. It was a swift, surgical and devastating raid, carried out in the most unlikely of places-and it once again raised the stakes in the Middle East, edging the area closer to another full-scale...