Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taught in the schools of France, the masters and deans can estimate at certain designated hours the activities going on in a fair proportion of Harvard Houses. The rule of thumb by which the masters calculate the number of parietal hours belongs more appropriately in a novel by Jonathan Swift. Are they saying that below a certain number per week the morality and virtue of the student body is being safeguarded, and that above that number dissipation and reduced efficiency are likely...
Logue has a swift temper; he is used to dealing with a high-powered, swift-moving, technically-oriented bureaucracy. Working easily with persistent, often stubborn, occasionally inarticulate people has never been one of his strong points. Snide and inflexible when things aren't going his way, Logue lacks the diplomacy that would commend him to the sensitive office of Mayor...
...recent surprises of the computer business has been the swift rise of middlemen who buy the machines from manufacturers and lease them to users. The middlemen operate with vast sums of other people's money, depend on federal antitrust pressure against dominant IBM for survival and on favorable income tax breaks for much of their profit. Yet a dozen companies, none more than 15 years old, have thrived so splendidly that computer-leasing stocks were among Wall Street's hottest glamor issues this spring...
...other American war has there been such an absence of hatred for the enemy, or so little popular understanding of the nature of the conflict. Only in the South and Southwest is there a palpable feeling that an all-out effort should be made to ensure swift and total military victory. In South Carolina, home state of General William C. Westmoreland, the public attitude, as summarized by Democratic Senator Ernest Rollings, is to "invoke the necessary price, wage and commodity controls, shelve the 'Great Society' for now, and call up the needed units of reserves and National Guard...
Thus posed, the problem might have been designed by an imaginative war-college instructor to baffle his student officers. In fact, the unsettling task was just what confronted the Israeli armed forces last June when they assaulted Syria's Golan Heights. But after Israel's swift and decisive campaigns in the Sinai and on the west bank, the bitter, bloody Battle of Golan Heights seemed almost anticlimactic. It got scant attention in news reports already concentrating on Israel's overall victory. Now, as military censors release the first detailed accounts of the fight for those rugged hilltops...