Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much diversification or too swift expansion or poor relations with their unions. Nonetheless, they managed to find the money and talent to keep going...
Back when Kuhn began his watch, someone quizzed him: "Quick, name two catchers on the St. Louis Browns in the early '40s." Without a blink, Kuhn replied, "Swift and Mancuso." But Ueberroth required a moment to think before mentioning Cincinnati Pitcher Ewell Blackwell among his favorite old players...
...fast paced elevator that is Washington, their fall from grace has been swift and severe. And just as quickly, another fallen star, Henry A. Kissinger '50, may rise again...
...black shadows, the Barfers, as they inescapably called themselves, struck with force. "We'll take them down hard. Fists, saps, gun butts," one said. "Until such time as the guy's dead or pretends he's dead." Public approval was swift and loud, and when the bandits abandoned the turf, the Barfers ignored sense, morality and orders, crossing the border after them...
...growing regions of the United states, Canada and the Soviet Union." A nation launching a first strike will effectively commit suicide regardless of the adversary's response. As Sagan put it in a recent lecture at the Kennedy School, "the attacked nation need not lift a finger for retribution swift and final to fall on the aggressor...