Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Good set the pace with determined strides while deFries followed smoothly. DeFries finished first in 4:35.19 after a swift, last dash that left Good in second place, just 1.05 behind...
...hour and a half early last Monday. They were preparing for an avalanche: the start of trading in 1.6 billion shares in eight new companies to be created Jan. 1 by the breakup of American Telephone & Telegraph. At precisely 10 a.m., the opening bell sounded with six swift clangs, and the rush was on. By 10:14, all eight of the new issues had opened, and 1.9 million telephone shares had changed hands...
...safety officer at the laboratory who requested anonymity said that Costello would have been much more seriously hurt if it had not been for the swift actions of two people who rushed her to an emergency shower and called an ambulance. Costello's rescuers, Richard P. Nathorst, a polymer science research associate, and Edward Otocka an adjunct professor of polymer science were treated for smoke inhalation...
...loneliness is his strength and his mandate for swift, decisive action. Fear momentarily is his ally, giving pause to foreign enemies and holding domestic public opinion in suspension for vital hours. In the ashes of failure and death, in the uncertainty of crisis there almost always lies opportunity for strokes of great leadership. It is one of the perverse and melancholy facts of the presidency, not wished by any White House occupant but as certain as night and day. Effective Presidents move quickly beyond mourning, beyond events...
...write in an age when headlines are more absurd than the products of imagination. Richler's contemporary entries offer hilarious refutation. Excerpts from Stanley Elkin's The Dick Gibson Show and Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint belong on the shelf with Rabelais and Swift. Woody Allen's The Kugelmass Episode stands as a classic. In it, a professor of humanities is propelled backward in time to the arms of Madame Bovary and the pages of a remedial Spanish textbook: "He was running for his life over a barren, rocky terrain as the word tener...