Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet-American relations. As if to test the U.S. resolve, the KGB arrested Dissident Alexander Ginzburg in a telephone booth. Hours later the Kremlin ordered the expulsion of George Krimsky, a Russian-speaking American reporter for the Associated Press who had been zealous in covering dissident activities. In swift retaliation, the U.S. State Department deported a Washington-based Tass correspondent (TIME, Feb. 14). This brought a response with a touch of Soviet surrealism worthy of Orwell or even Lewis Carroll. The Russians denounced the U.S. for failure to adhere to the provisions of the Helsinki agreement...
...with their aging heroes. A Wind to Shake the World is Allen's homage to the Big Wind, a meticulously documented diary of the storm's progress as it hacked its swath of destruction across a defenseless New York-New England coastline. It is the story of how swift death burst onto a country that didn't yet know enough about hurricanes even to bother naming them, and how people worn out by nine years of depression struggled, quite literally, to keep their heads above water...
Chuck McDermott and his band Wheatstraw will play country rock at Johnathan Swift's this Friday and Saturday, so why are they listed in the Folk column? Beats me. Same with John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mash Boys, who play Sunday. Watch out, cover charge here. Music starts between 8:00 and 9:00 pm at 30 Boylston St. in the Square; three or four sets an evening; telephone...
...sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat; Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant, my feet...
...winter home at Aswan and ordered troops to back up his besieged riot police. For one of the few times in his six-year administration, Sadat was apparently stunned and frightened by the violence of the Egyptian masses. On the drive from a helicopter pad to his office, his swift-moving convoy was guarded by three select commando battalions and two armored units from the Egyptian army. Cairo's streets were swept clean for the move, a rare decision for a President who up to now has ecstatically been hailed among his people...