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Word: swiftness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lowell, powered by the swift serves of Eric Gustavson and Lonnie Kaplan, has complied a 4-0 mark in A competition and is 3-1 in B play. Lowell split with Eliot and reached the high point of its season last week, when both A and B squads beat a Dudley House A team...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Leverett Grabs Lead in Volleyball As Withrop's Straus Hopes Dim | 3/27/1969 | See Source »

...Regents' meagre enthusiasm for the course-creating committees vanished as soon as they heard about Cleaver. In a swift purge, the Regents banned the Cleaver course, crippled the student-faculty committees, and touched off immediate student protests. A series of abortive moves by both sides followed. But the issue of student and faculty power to create their own courses was never resolved. The Regents re-opened negotiations to decide just how much autonomy the individual campuses should have in designing curricula, but no clear statement emerged...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: A Little Balance | 3/26/1969 | See Source »

...minute. The hunter, his face smeared with seal blood to cut down ice glare and prevent chapping, grabs a 60-lb. pup by a hind flipper, whacks it on its soft skull, spins the pup over, punctures the throat and then neatly skins away pelt, flippers and blubber with swift strokes of a razor-sharp knife. The process commences at dawn, continues until dark and turns the once pristine ice into an ugly palette of dirtied snow, crimson blood sprays and grotesquely skinned carcasses. Watching this month's carnage TIME Correspondent Dick Duncan concluded: "Somehow in the savagely beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Days of the Long Knives | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...admirers and critics, he has also come to symbolize that unique American institution, the land-grant college, of which M.S.U., founded in 1855, was the prototype. One of his admirers, President Nixon has now tapped Hannah to head the Agency for International Development-an appointment that should win swift Senate approval and please the 68 countries to which AID renders technical and economic assistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: University Presidents: Exit Methuselah | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

Bauer's winning goal came at 3:14 of the overtime period. The swift wing grabbed a pass from center George McManama, broke in alone on Wildcat goalie Rick Metzer, and whipped a perfectly-placed backhand shot into the net for the victory...

Author: By Mark H. Odonoghue, | Title: Icemen Edge U.N.H., 4-3, On Bauer's Overtime Goal | 3/5/1969 | See Source »

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