Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus the two teams brought distinctive styles to the championship series; the Celtics swift and efficient, fast-break artists who could run Mercury off the court; the Rockets muscular and intimidating, backboard battlers who could shove Hercules out of the gym. They took turns imposing those styles on one another: Houston won the fourth game, manhandling Boston under the boards, and the Celtics replied by streaking to a 29-point fast-break blitz in the fifth game. In the end the Celtics carried the series with versatility, speed, Bird's brilliant rebounding and a tight defense that kept...
...tapes from an unidentified Australian who had bugged the Prince to embarrass the monarchy. But Regan insisted that he had not authorized their sale. As Die Aktuelle's staff tried to peddle the transcripts on both sides of the Atlantic (asking price: $50,000), palace reaction was swift-and angry. "If this is true," rumbled a royal spokesman, "this is a bad day for journalism." The palace won an injunction from Britain's high court forbidding Regan from "disclosing, divulging or making use of the contents of the tapes of the telephone conversations or publishing transcripts of them...
...five-game winner and Matt Keough was just behind him at 4-0. Keough also led the league in strikeouts (24), followed by Mike Norris (23). Leftfielder Rickey Henderson, who broke Ty Cobb's American League record for stolen bases last year with 100, was off to a swift beginning with 16 steals and led the league in runs scored with 21. Rightfielder Tony Armas topped three lists: home runs, 7; RBIs, 22; total bases...
...both miners and campesinos had been anxiously awaiting the fulfillment of the previous month's democratic elections in which Hernan Siles Zuazo, a center-left candidate, had won a clear plurality. Zuazo was to be inaugurated August 6. When news of the military coup reached Viloco, the response was swift and unanimous. The miners' union called a general strike and formed a 12-member steering committee to coordinate the resistance. The committee included representatives of miners, their wives and relavaderos, Marginal workers not formally hired by the mining company. Action was taken immediately to block the road to Viloco...
Justice was swift in the Old West; vengeance is mined in the New Hollywood. United Artists, which had rashly built the film's publicity campaign on the hope of rave reviews, withdrew Heaven's Gate in the wake of devastating pans. And the rash spread. Within days, all Hollywood was being held responsible for one director's profligacy, one studio's negligence. Every big-budget movie was the target of japery: Robert Evans' Popeye became "Evans' Gate," Warren Beatty's forthcoming Reds was "Warren's Gate...