Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fighters, while the tough Thai infantry's Garand rifles will soon be replaced with light, fast-firing Armalites, which are much better suited to the miasmic conditions of jungle warfare. Radar and reconnaissance planes will add long-range vision to the 14,000-man Thai Navy, and swift patrol boats will give the 1,500 miles of meandering coastline additional security...
...accomplish the latter, it has negotiated transatlantic cargo tie-ups with Seaboard World Airlines, Inc., Pan Am and McLean Industries, which operates a fleet of huge, specially designed piggyback freighters. DC began talking with dozens of potential American clients even before the West Friesland deal went through, got some swift results. "The European Du Pont operation had recently canceled its contract with West Friesland," says DC's London-born president, Leslie G. Taylor. "We turned that contract back on in five minutes...
...near-dictatorial powers while maintaining his devotion to constitutional democracy. Inevitably, his efforts have pleased no one -neither the moderates and leftists, who complain about his muffling of politics, nor the military's linha dura (hard line), which scoffs at his loyalty to democracy. In a series of swift . strokes over the past fortnight, Castello Branco struck back-not hard enough to do anyone real damage, but forcefully enough to put the country on notice that he intends to run things...
...author's style is simple, swift and so lucid that the reader always sees exactly what Simenon wants him to see but never quite how Simenon makes him see it. In this case, Simenon makes the reader see how the creative process actually proceeds, and at the same time achieves one of the few absolutely lovable characters he has ever created. "If I were allowed to keep only one of my novels," he remarked not long ago with unaccustomed self-satisfaction, "I would choose this one." It is indeed one of the finest sections in the all-too-human...
LeRoi Jones has a beard, a gigantic grievance collection, and a notion that he is the Jonathan Swift of the Ne gro revolution. But Swift's excremental visions were elaborated by his intellect; Jones's explosive expressions proceed from a simpler impulse. In The Toilet, his most effective play, the action transpires in a latrine. And in this book, described on the dust jacket as an autobiography, he announces aggressively: "This thing, if you read it, will jam your face in my -." It will indeed. On almost every page, Author Jones, who is now 31 years old, makes...