Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Swift Disaster...
...week of stunning, swift disaster in China. Nearly a million Communist troops along a 400-mile front poured across the broad Yangtze, Nationalist China's last great defensive barrier, and swept government positions aside like puny earthworks in a raging tide. In four days they took Nanking, cut off Shanghai, and captured half a dozen cities...
...these publications, Wilson's message is "deterrence." By making punishment swift and certain (not necessarily severe), he argues in the September issue of Atlantic, society can reduce the crime rate more effectively than by starting job-creation programs. This takes us back to the view held for centuries, that crime has less to do with social circumstance than with an individual's inherent tendency towards good or evil...
With so many cars named after the swift and the strong in the animal kingdom, one name has been overlooked-the cheetah, said to be the swiftest animal on earth. Because of all the many recalls plaguing the car industry, this name would certainly cover all bases...
Manet's sense of touch was extraordinary, but its bravura passages are in the details: how the generalized bagginess of a trouser leg, for instance, rendered in flat, thin paint and firmed up with swift daubs of darker tone in the folds, contrasts with the thick, creamy white directional brush strokes that model the curve of a spat. The ceaseless, intelligent play of flat and round, thick and thin, "slow" and "fast" passages of paint is what gives Manet's surface its probing liveliness. There is nothing "miraculous" about it, but it was not the result...