Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This has all been rather unsettling to Abu Dhabi, whose 15,000 Bedouins have got along for centuries on piracy, pearl fishing and intertribal raids. In the 19th century, the swift pirate dhows were swept from the gulf by Britain, which established "a perpetual maritime truce"hence the name Trucial States, given to Abu Dhabi and six other sheikdoms. Pearl fishing became unprofitable when the Japanese cleverly introduced cultured pearls to the world. There was nothing left to Abu Dhabi but intrigue: of the twelve predecessors of the present sheik, only three died peacefully in their palace beds. The rest...
...Swift yet unhurried, the tense drama of the operating room plays itself out as Dr. Francis D. Moore, surgeon in chief of Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, removes a breast afflicted with cancer...
Returning to Miami, Miro wrote out a highly emotional, 25-page statement of grievances. Instead of making it public, he sent it to the State Department and awaited the reaction-which was brutally swift in coming. State issued a statement accusing Miro of "gross distortions," threatened to cut off the $100,000-a-month subsidy it has been slipping the Revolutionary Council through...
...seriously worried, and a few of the more progressive members of Franco's authoritarian regime are anxiously trying to improve labor conditions. The Labor Ministry is preparing a bill to legalize "labor" strikes (as distinct from "political" strikes). Another measure of the regime's concern was the swift settlement of last week's trouble among the vineyard workers of Sanlucar and Jerez. As soon as word of the work stoppage was flashed to Madrid, a Labor Ministry official raced to Cadiz and pressured vineyard employers into bowing to most of the worker demands, including more centimes...
Although it forced some 800 people to leave their homes, the blaze was confined to the 119-year-old Swift & Co. plant at 188 Gore St. It was the third major Easter fire in Cambridge in as many years...