Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relatives of the 524 people who were killed in the August crash of a Japan Air Lines Boeing 747. Last week in a highly unusual step, the Seattle-based aircraft maker agreed, for the time being, to share equally with JAL the compensation costs in an effort to ensure swift payment. The expense may reach $135 million. Once the cause of the crash has been determined, Boeing said, it and JAL could then settle up between themselves...
...swift and sure midair interception of the Achille Lauro hijackers by four Navy fighters provided the armed forces with a much needed victory to boast about. It answers "the cheap-shot artists who try to portray the military as not being able to tie their shoelaces," exulted Navy Secretary John Lehman. But the Navy's success at diverting a single civilian airliner is not likely to muffle a drumbeat for military reform that has been swelling throughout Washington. At a session with reporters last week, former Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard, who chairs a presidential commission appointed to look...
...English novel was born in forgery. Robinson Crusoe never existed. Neither did Lemuel Gulliver or Pamela Andrews. Yet they all left detailed accounts of their lives and adventures, thanks to the intercessions of Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift and Samuel Richardson. As readers grew more sophisticated, authors in England and the U.S. felt less obliged to offer fiction in the guise of fact. But the tradition of the imaginary autobiography has continued to attract notable writers from Dickens and Twain to Salinger and Bellow. In the right hands, the old trick of the sham document can still inspire belief and wonder...
Stricker covered the five-kilometer course in a swift 17:37, one second faster than rival Lisa Welch's course record set last week at the Greater Boston Championships...
When the Harvard comeback attempt slackened, however, Gober took advantage, heading in a Swift indirect kick in the final minute to seal the victory for Cormell...