Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once you translate your dark thoughts and brutal feelings into savage acts such as these, the law will be swift to punish you, the guilty, and to protect your victims...
...brilliantly aided and abetted by Helen Sobel, had again won one of bridge's most coveted titles. And last week, reflecting on that victory, he finally permitted himself to show the hard competitive instinct that lies close beneath his amiable surface. "I gave my rivals a good swift kick in the stomach," said Charles Goren, "and they hated...
Estimates of NATO strength remained secret for security reasons, although the Admiral admitted that the allied forces were considerably smaller than the Soviet armies. Despite their military strength, however, the Russians have "the patience and the realism" not to launch an attack while they are convinced of swift and united retaliation, Admiral Wright declared. "Our ability to convince them of this is the primary deterrent to aggression," he emphasized...
...Swift as the panther in triumph, fierce
...knows that Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, was one of the toughest, tetchiest, worldliest women of her time-but also that the time itself was one of treachery and double-dealing, an age in which England was "almost plagued with brilliance, and swollen with ambition." It was the era of Swift, Defoe, Newton, Wren, Pope -but it was equally an era of savage religious fanaticism, corruption and shameless nepotism (men, said Sarah, anticipating William Gilbert's Sir Joseph Porter, came "to be Admirals without ever having seen water but in a basin...