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Word: swifts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Green , which is undefeated in Ivy play, controlled the game from the outset. Junior Alison Hibbert led the attack, recording two goals and an assist, as the swift, aggresive Dartmouth forwards forced the play into the Harvard...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Dartmouth Defeats Crimson Stickwomen, 4-1; Big Green Remains Undefeated in Ivy League | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...Crimson, now 5-2, once again showed coordinated team play as it downed the hapless Eagles, who sunk to 1-8-1. Aided by the artificial surface, the swift Crimson forward line exerted constant pressure on the Eagle net, and forced play into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soaring Stickwomen Dump Eagles, 3-1 | 10/17/1979 | See Source »

...admiration for Lautrec's craft, for the eggshell delicacy of spattered lithographic ink or the exact placement of a complementary color, overrides it. But it lasts just long enough to give a sense of wholly different organization-that the painting or the drawing is based on a precarious, swift sense of the real, exact but friable, quite unlike the formal traditions of European art since the Renaissance. There was nothing expressionistic about Lautrec. He did not revel in the miseries of the soul, and even his most pathetic images come to us across a measured distance and through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gaslight and Fallen Souls | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...Patriotic Front to attend a "constitutional conference" in London last week were cheered when the two sides agreed on an outline for the discussions. It had been adopted, an erudite Foreign Office spokesman gleefully announced, nemine contradicente (Latin for without any objection), on only the second day. The unexpectedly swift approval of the agenda suggested that both sides were determined to reach agreement on a new constitution for the breakaway colony that could serve as a basis for a cease-fire and internationally recognized elections. As a senior adviser to Joshua Nkomo, the Patriotic Front co-leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZIMBABWE RHODESIA: The Last Chance | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...rule that no school could become more than 30% black. In fact, busing has served as an incentive for neighborhood integration in St. Petersburg; white children who live near blacks can avoid busing, since they are needed to desegregate nearby schools. Busing also helped block the predicted pattern of swift racial turnover once a few blacks had moved into a neighborhood, since the plan guarantees that no school will become all black. Says a local real estate agent: "When busing was new, people were afraid of something they just didn't know. But I think desegregation is an accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Tale of Four Cities | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

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