Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Colleen Moore, a freshman forward on the Harvard women's soccer team, pinched the Quakers collectively and woke them from their sweet slumber with one swift kick on an overcast weekend afternoon...
...Behavior of this nature is not and will not be tolerated at Boston College", the statement read. "This University intends to take swift and appropriate action upon completion of the investigation...
...Judiciary committee is expected to vote in favor of launching such an inquiry by next week, and the full House would then prepare to start hearings sometime after the November elections. In the bloodless trench warfare over the Clinton presidency, it seems to matter little that Americans want a swift outcome. But it is fair to ask: What if they held a war and nobody showed...
Love triangles are a dime a dozen in novels, but hate triangles are altogether rarer. In John Burnham Schwartz's swift, smooth second novel, Reservation Road (Knopf; 292 pages; $24), the three-sided relationship between Ethan Learner, a pacifist English professor; his wife Grace, a trusting garden designer; and Dwight Arno, a temperamental probate lawyer, converges on a common point of pain: the hit-and-run death of 10-year-old Josh Learner, Ethan and Grace's music-prodigy son, at the cold steel hands of Dwight's Ford Taurus. The death is an accident, all blood and vectors...
...voted for George Bush in the 1992 election and Senator Dole in the 1996 election, and I am proud of my votes," Williams declared. "Ken Lucas voted for Bill Clinton twice, and he is running from his votes. Ken Lucas should...tell [Clinton] to either resign or face swift and certain punitive consequences." Local reaction to the Clinton videotape is key to whether the Williams campaign decides to move ahead with an all-out ad war tying Lucas to Clinton. Says Scott Howell, the Williams-campaign media consultant: "Kentucky is a southern state--it's a little more character driven...