Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration's decision to sell off some $2.3 billion in such federal assets as housing mortgages. G.O.P. Representative Tom Curtis of Missouri, ranking House minority member of the Joint Economic Committee, took note of this disparity and complained that the President had rigged the budget to achieve swift expansion in Election Year...
Bows & Arrows. The transition was swift and bloody. Led by a fanatical Uganda-born and Cuban-trained "field marshal" named John Okello, 27, a ragtag, 600-man army carrying pangas, bows and arrows raided two police armories. Then the rebels swept into Zanzibar Town before dawn, passing out guns to Afro-Shirazis and members of the outlawed Red Chinese-orientated Umma Party. In less than twelve hours, the Arab government of Sultan Seyyid Jamshid bin Abdulla had fallen, its ministers were in jail, and the 34-year-old sultan himself was hurrying toward asylum in Tanganyika...
...Concorde's. Boeing's design is the most advanced, employing a "variable-sweep" wing that can be adjusted to different settings. By extending its wings, Boeing's SST could take off and land at the same speeds as supersonic jets, tucking in its wings for swift supersonic flight...
...allegiance to outdated methods of processing and marketing. But the meat packers have learned to adjust to a new era of supermarketing and new methods of livestock-raising. No company has learned better than Chicago's Armour & Co., the nation's second biggest meat packer (after Swift) and its most aggressive. Last week Armour reported earnings of $16.3 million on sales of $1.8 billion, three times its profit of five years...
...professor of music at Yale until 1953, when he returned to Europe and settled down in Zurich. He was a short, round little man of robust health until circulatory ailments began to plague him in his declining years. Hindemith died at 68, following four swift strokes, and was buried near Vevey on Lake Geneva. Only a few close friends were at his graveside...