Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Legislation allowing Massachusetts to donate a large chunk of the Bennett Street transit yards for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library began a swift and facile journey through the Great and General Court yesterday...
...trouble is that Playwright Orton did not set out to write a comedy of manners but a Stygian comedy of morals. Dipping his brush in the bile of Swift, he has managed to paint only an urban pastiche of Tobacco Road...
...when the patient was wheeled into the operating suite. A team of ten masked, green-gowned doctors made final preparations. By 6:50 a.m., the patient was asleep under general anesthesia. Ten minutes later, the chief surgeon murmured "scalpel?" and the operation was under way. There was a swift, sure incision, then a slow, deliberate excision. By 9:15 a.m., the last suture was in place, the operation complete. "It's wonderful," breathed one of the doctors, "just wonderful...
What has happened to Castro is disappointment, disillusion and decay. After nearly seven years of power, the grandiose dreams are ended. Gone is the hope of a swift socialist transformation to make agricultural Cuba a Caribbean industrial colossus; the Cuban economy is in tatters, back where it started as a one-crop sugar producer. Gone is the vision of leading a vast Latin American popular revolution; that revolution is being ably led by the democratic left of Peru's Fernando Belaunde Terry, Venezuela's Raul Leoni and Chile's Eduardo Frei-while Castro's once-great...
...came here because, when the school doors closed at three o'clock, I did not enjoy turning my back upon the neighborhood in which my students lived--and finding, by a swift express route back across the Charles River, an escape from and an evasion of everything they hated, feared and loved...