Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jacob Lamar plays the young Black man, swift and fierce, something of a swashbuckler, full of lashing motion. David Reiffle, the elderly shopkeeper, settles into counteracting stubborness and stolidity, wrapping himself in a faint German accent...
...Sandinistas' response to this invocation of the martyred Chamorro-still a symbol of the revolution-was swift. Unless La Prensa stops criticizing the government, announced Sandinista Commandante Jaime Wheelock, the newspaper will be shut down permanently. La Prensa, said Wheelock, must "fit in with the revolution...
...scrum which turned the tide of the game. They did the dirty work in the trenches, fighting to get the ball back to the swift backs...
Once the Prime Minister arrived at his house, he tuned in the Voice of Israel and fielded phone calls keeping him abreast of developments in Cairo. Jimmy Carter called from Plains to tell Begin that Sadat was only slightly injured. The two men expressed mutual hopes for his swift recovery. A short time later, the first reports appeared on U.S. television networks announcing Sadat's death. Begin at first refused to believe the news. "You heard ABC," he told an aide. "ABC didn't say he died." When the truth finally sank in, Begin slumped disconsolately in his library armchair...
...churches." Many of these churches were formed after the Cultural Revolution of the late '60s, when Chinese Christians were persecuted and their regular places of worship closed. Now even the more tolerant regime of Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping and Premier Zhao Ziyang has begun to bristle at the swift expansion of the house church movement, and is hardly likely to countenance the Bible smuggling effort. Says an American ex-Marine who led Project Pearl: "Between obedience to God and obedience to men, we choose obedience...