Word: swiftness
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Harvard’s response was swift, as Williamson smacked a leadoff homer of her own in the bottom of the inning to cut the Dartmouth lead in half...
Should we hold Annan responsible? Well, at the start of the Iraq war last spring, he called for swift resumption of the Oil-for-Food program. As the Wall Street Journal’s Claudia Rosett, who broke the story, has put it, “We are left to contemplate a U.N. system that has engendered a secretary-general either so dishonest that he should be dismissed or so incompetent that he is truly dangerous—and should be dismissed...
...were really serious about solving a problem, the reader can't help thinking, you wouldn't be sitting around crafting a gently mocking novel about it; you'd be out there doing something. The real targets of satire tend to be impervious to it, anyway. As Jonathan Swift put it, "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own." Of course, Swift is talking about far less sophisticated readers than you and I. Poor suckers...
Schenck, W. M.; Slack, L.; Shea, P. D.; Swan, T.; Swift...
...persons comprehend the problems of adolescence. Youth is blamed instead of understood. Many of our problems of discipline and punishment need understanding, sympathy, psychological aid. The swift changes in the industrial order in the last twenty years have meant equally swift changes in the social order, and lives must be adjusted to meet them. Even older people are dazed, and too often young people are thrown completely off their balance...