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Word: swifts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...style in office also set him apart from his predecessors. Blunt in speech and swift of decision, he proved to be a charismatic leader who handled foreign and domestic affairs with equal ease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Tanaka-San's Decline and Rise | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

...Jonathan Swift's 30 John F. Kennedy St., bill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT is to be DONE? | 7/29/1983 | See Source »

...Southwest, five lives have been claimed so far by the swift Colorado River, which is sluicing over dikes, sandbag barriers and splashboards. William Wert was on a raft excursion with 14 other vacationers shooting the Grand Canyon's Crystal Rapids when the 33-ft. rubber raft flipped; all passengers except Wert made it to shore. Farther downstream on the 1,450-mile river, in Mexico, four people drowned. "We cannot blame the Americans," said Francisco Gonzales, deputy police chief of the town of Luis B. Sanchez. "They did not make the rain and snow that are causing the river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Somber Prelude to the Fourth | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

...husband are physically threatened by those who suspect Martin is an impostor, it never occurs to the couple to begin again in another town. But that is only a solution in today's mobile, even rootless, society: in 16th-century France, even train travels would have been far too swift...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: Being There | 7/6/1983 | See Source »

Parodies and caricatures, observed Aldous Huxley, are "the most penetrating of criticisms." These companion anthologies skewer English and American authors from Jonathan Swift (by Alexander Pope) to Raymond Chandler (by Woody Allen) with no tips on the foils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

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