Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mock Invasion. Its death was swift and violent. In a single night, a conspiracy led by five young Sandhurst-trained officers killed or neutralized their superiors and grabbed control of big units of the army. Then, in simultaneous strikes throughout the nation, they killed or kidnaped Nigeria's most powerful feudal lord, the Sardauna of Sokoto; its two most corrupt politicians, Finance Minister Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh and Western Region Premier Chief Samuel Akintola; and its most prestigious international figure, Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa...
...sail ($465) or outboard ($250). Because of a thick bottom layer of polyurethane foam, it will not capsize with a 145-lb. boy standing on its gunwale, nor sink when filled with water and two beefy men. Total weight: 90 lbs. Lighter still is the 10-ft. 4-in. Swift, George O'Day's bid for a slice of the sailboard market. Only 80 lbs., the Swift costs $250, features a self-bailing cockpit and toeholds for hiking...
...called Group of Ten to hasten their efforts toward an agreement on a new international currency to supplement dollars, pounds and gold in world trade, as the U.S. has been urging. The problem, of course, is old, and even in the relatively uncomplicated days of 1720, English Satirist Jonathan Swift recognized it in a memorable quatrain...
...Swift's insight still applies-246 years later-as few statesmen understand bet ter than the Group of Ten, a blue-ribbon panel of finance ministers and central-bank governors from Belgium, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Sweden and the U.S. The group will shortly meet again in Paris, with its sights set on reaching a compromise agreement by March...
That is how Jonathan Swift defined the necessary conditions for ending a war. There is no sign that these conditions have been reached in Viet Nam. The U.S. is certainly not yielding the point it is contending for-the independence of South Viet Nam-and has certainly not concluded that this goal is impossible to attain. Conversely, the enemy does not appear ready to yield his point either-that the U.S. must be driven out of Viet Nam-and, as far as anyone can tell so far, has not been persuaded that this goal is unattainable...