Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defeat. Guarded hopes had changed to optimism. After all, perhaps the weak state of the Soviet satellite empire, forcing the Kremlin to come to terms with a national Communism in Poland, might also persuade the Kremlin to come to terms with a national regime in Hungary. Instead, the exceedingly swift development of anti-Communist sentiment in Hungary made a fearful Kremlin resolve to make an example of Hungary...
...Thursday, Oct. 25, when Israel began its swift and quiet mobilization, U.S. military attaches noticed that their French and British colleagues had suddenly stopped talking to them. The French and British also seemed to know far more about Israeli mobilization than the Americans...
...Major General Abdel Hakim Amer, flew into Jordan's capital city of Amman. He quickly negotiated a pact to align Jordan's army, alongside those of Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia, under Amer's command in case of war with Israel. The reaction of Israel was swift. Premier David Ben-Gurion proclaimed a partial mobilization of Israel's armed forces, as "a precautionary measure and to safeguard the security of Israel's borders and border settlements." This week President Eisenhower held emergency meetings at Walter Reed Hospital, dispatched a cable to Ben-Gurion asking Israel...
...symptoms until-as is the way with this baffling disease-it may subside spontaneously after a few months. Victims of other forms of rheumatism, some of whom thought rheumatism was all one disease, were disappointed when the hormones proved of little use to them. In some patients they produced swift and undesirable side effects (high blood pressure, moon face, beards on women...
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill., Nov. 4--Adlai E. Stevenson today urged President Eisenhower to take swift steps toward flying United Nations observers into Hungary and other Soviet satellites...