Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Lincoln Wright--Jonathan Swift...
John Lincoln Wright--Jonathan Swift...
...taken over the government of France. Under the pressures of war from Britain, The Netherlands, Austria and Prussia, and the threat of civil war in the provinces, the Committee condemned hundreds of aristocrats, clergymen and ordinary folk to their death on charges of plotting counterrevolutionary activities. Justice was rough, swift and harsh. Wit nesses were summoned at the discretion of the courts, defendants were refused the right of counsel, and verdicts were limited to acquittal or death. The rattle of the tumbrels, the two-wheeled carts that car ried the doomed through the streets to the guillotine, became a familiar...
...space appears as the crisscrossing of streams of movements and streams of events." Just as the marble hero radiating authority from a pedestal took its place in a geocentric universe ruled by kings, so the new sculpture seemed appropriate to an idea of the world based on relativity and swift social change...
Harvard outscored Middlebury 6-0 in the second half with swift movement and excellent ball control. Faught scored twice in the second half, Predun grabbed his second and third goals of the contest, while Jamie Egasti tallied once and Mike Ward, starting his frist game at attack, got his second of the game...