Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...England's rise has been as stunning as it was swift. The Patriots had not enjoyed a winning season since 1966. After a dismal three wins and eleven losses last year, Quarterback Jim Plunkett-the 1970 Stanford Heisman Trophy winner who was supposed to parade the Patriots to glory-asked to be traded to a California team. Patriot fans, sensing that the RENOVATIONS UNDER WAY sign might hang for years longer, responded by planning to stay away from Patriot games. Result: season-ticket sales dropped by 10,000, and first-game attendance was the lowest in the team...
...audiences with no notes, her only prop a glass of water. With a spontaneity that makes her long-mastered speech sound newly minted, she hard-sells Jimmy Carter. These two sides of Rosalynn Carter, velvet and steel, have caused a minor quandary: she cannot decide whether to dub her swift little campaign plane Magnolia One or First Person, a women's-lib twitting of the First Lady title...
Reaction to the arrests from many Brown students was swift and highly critical. A committee of student government representatives released a statement yesterday calling the incident "grossly reprehensible, and a violation of every principle for which this institution is supposed to stand...
Reaction was swift and varied -from both Carter backers, who were dismayed despite efforts to rationalize what he had done, and foes. Observed Georgia Democratic Chairwoman Marjorie Thurman, a Carter opponent in state politics: "Bad, bad, bad." South Carolina Senator Ernest Hollings expressed hope that "when he becomes President, he'll quit talking about adultery...
...many of the 15 Miss Marple novels, these people are just swift sketches. But readers savor them. Miss Marple herself is a fairly complex character and the one dearest to the author. She has changed somewhat over the years- but never enough to resemble the more boisterous, vulgar character played so well on the screen by Margaret Rutherford...