Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also will expand naval surveillance over Communist junks, which have become a major means of sneaking men and materiel into South Viet Nam. U.S. intelligence experts estimate that the Reds are presently using some 72,000 junks for this purpose. The U.S. will not only supply Saigon with swift new patrol boats, but will also order its own warships to track "suspicious" vessels...
...pulled the seat handles, which flipped off the canopy. Then I groped until I found the ejection handles. I was still pulling them when the butt-snapper -that's a canvas that snaps taut and flips you clear-under my seat propelled me out into the air. Three swift jolts, and I was floating down in my parachute. Since I had nothing else to do, I went through the procedure I'd been taught over and over again...
...outnumbered the bears on the Street, the Dow-Jones average of 30 industrial blue chips barely moved after it hit a record of 906 in early February. Last week, in a series of stirring sessions, the blue chips finally took off. Led by General Motors, A.T. & T., Woolworth and Swift, the market climbed to records on three straight days. The Dow-Jones soared from 901 to a new high of 912, barely retreated to close the week...
...open mind toward the new, the shocking, even the intolerable in art is an intellectual duty, if only because so many great and shocking artists from Swift to Joyce were so vehemently condemned at first. It hardly follows that any writer who manages to shock is therefore automatically entitled to respect as a worthy rebel. Yet this is how their followers regard the heroes of today's avantgarde, notably Jean Genet (Our Lady of the Flowers) and William Burroughs (Naked Lunch). "The new immoralists" is what they are labeled by Partisan Review Editor William Phillips, who is anything...
...American Civil Liberties Union is not happy with Judge Stout's self-styled "swift justice," which may overlook constitutional niceties. She is also in continuing physical danger; one spectator shakedown in her courtroom recently produced 22 weapons, ranging from knives to scissors to an 18-in. dog chain. Armed with round-the-clock bodyguards, however, the judge goes serenely on her way. "If they can frighten the courts," she says, "they will just take over. I don't intend to be frightened...