Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Third unit quarterback Jerry Beasley led the Crimson to two last quarter scores, handing off to Leo Swift for the first tally, and running 16 yards himself on an end sweep for the second. Each TD was followed by a two point pass conversion by Beasley...
...crown from Jack Dempsey in 1926, called the fight "a terrible hoax," adding that "it's shows like this that are killing boxing." They surely do it no good. In the prefight ballyhoo, everyone had been told to expect a classic which matched Patterson, the swift and stouthearted Good Guy, against Liston, the hulking, oft-arrested...
...Vatican Council, the Catholic Church will also be measuring itself against what is new in the world: science's burst of knowledge, morality's blurred standards, secularism's indifference to religion, industrialism's urban crowding and automation, politics' wars and swift reapportionments of power. In trying to grapple with such problems, the council may disappointingly settle for a series of revised clubhouse rules, more cautious than venturesome. But millions of the church's faithful-and others, too -are praying that good men will be guided to a larger effort, a renewal of spirit rather...
...Somerset Maugham, Colette. Isak Dinesen, Thomas Mann and Thornton Wilder-seem to have little in common. But all illustrate Wescott's passionate belief in the magical power of a story to hold those brooding truths about human behavior that cannot be abstracted as philosophy or illuminated in the swift lightning of poetic metaphor...
Gretel then took advantage of an old Australian custom and, catching the following seas on her broad stern, surf-boarded home to a :47 victory and the fastest 24 mile race ever sailed by the swift Twelve meter sloops...