Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less and lesu clear to any one person just what's happening." And so on. Individuals have less direct control than they used to over the consequences of what they do, so morality has lost its practical substance and kept only its form. "Modern life is so complex and swift that a person immersed in it seldom sees what he's actually doing...
...Pauline Swift, a member of the Social Action Committee of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, said that a citizen with a complaint about the police department would feel better talking to a civilian head of the department...
...Swift Action. Levi's new probe will be completely independent of the Mohr clique. TIME has also learned that if any evidence is uncovered to show that the Mohr clique slanted the first report, Director Kelley is expected to take swift action against the group. In addition, sources have revealed that the probe has widened into other areas of possible wrongdoing. Among the charges being investigated...
...that he would rebel if pressured to resign, they persuaded him that the tape's contents must be made public. They knew there would be a tremendous outcry when Americans realized that Nixon had been lying to them all along. The strategy, of course, worked. The reaction was swift and overwhelmingly angry-and it told Richard Nixon what his advisers could not, dared not tell...
...really wants broads on the police? What about you're having a fight with the wife and givin' her the back of your hand when the Polack down the street puts the squeal in. You want some bull dyke come chargin' on your property all ready with a swift kick in the lasagnas. No way. Not while I'm mayor...