Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike the army of Hemingway romanticists who cultivate fighters to show off their feel for the sport, Gardner has a real understanding of the ring and the nameless people who are scarred by it. With a poetic touch and dry swift phrasing, he has created a remarkable portrait of a marginal, subterranean world in which two fighters and a manager occupy numbing neutral corners in the struggle for life...
...students had to go through the gradual reconciliation this girl did. For some the return was swift and joyous. One boy said, "I walked up the steps to my room and pushed open the doors. All my roommates were there slapping me on the back and saying. 'Hey, man.' Right away. Before, the people I had known in high school were much realer to me than my college friends. But from then on, the characters in my dreams were the same people I saw walking around in the daytime...
...revitalization was swift and sweeping. The CRIMSON'S pen was mightier than the Service News sheathed sword, and other departments of the paper sprang into action under the guidance of experienced veterans...
...have been flogged for anticipating the TVese use of host as a transitive verb. Since advise in the sense of "notify" is business and Army English, Willa Gather and Sir Richard Steele must have been members of the industrial-military complex. And since erratas reflects ignorance of Latin, Jonathan Swift was the Dean of ignoramuses. How good that we now have concerned and learned experts to guard the standards of our language and save it from such corrupters...
...under control again by tight money, higher taxes and a surplus in the federal budget. Last week Paul W. McCracken, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, admitted that a full year of tight money might be needed to slow price inflation. That would mean that the swift rise in the U.S. cost of living may not begin to slacken markedly until January. The date represents a considerable stretch in the Administration's former timetable for halting soaring prices. As recently as June, the White House was promising such signs of economic slowdown any time after midyear...