Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seamless surfaces of Holbein's paintings hide the machinery, as they were meant to do. For the first impulses, the slow probings and swift appraisals of a face, one must consult the drawings: something easier said than done in America until now. Although there are paintings by Holbein in U.S. collections, the body of his graphic work is in England and on the Continent. The most important part of it belongs to the British royal family and is housed at Windsor; it comprises the many sketches Holbein made of the nobility and gentry at the court of Henry VIII...
...counterattack was swift and vicious. She was twice set up for drunken-driving arrests. A state van followed her car while she collected evidence of pardon fixes. Blanton's aides found a girlfriend of a convicted murderer who was willing to say that Marie had stolen credit cards for shopping sprees. Before Marie was fired in 1977, she went...
That metamorphosis is symbolic of a sweeping transformation that is creating a New Economy. It is a two-tiered economy marked by swift change and stark contrasts. While traditional smokestack industries are reeling from foreign competition, surging high-technology companies are leading the world in innovation. Though hundreds of thousands of blue-collar assembly-line workers have lost their livelihoods, white-collar engineers have had their pick of high-paying jobs. Last year 25,346 businesses went bankrupt, the most since the Great Depression, but 566,942 new companies opened their doors. Says Delaware Governor Pierre du Pont...
August 18, 1975: "Suharto continues to worry about adverse reaction from the U.S.... top military commanders, however, still favor swift action...
Public reaction was swift and devastating--the largest out cry Watt has stirred up in his far-from-placid two years in office, a department of official reported. Disc jockeys across the country inveighed against Watt-one called him "the administration's chief nerd." The Beach Boys, the most prominent group to play at the Fourth of July concert in past years, issued a statement that declared. "After Watt's remarks, we believe the Department of the Interior has attracted the wrong element...