Word: swifts
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...eating disorder can wreak havoc on the body at any age, but at midlife the damage can be swift: stress fractures from prolonged exercise, early osteoporosis from poor nutrition and heart arrhythmia brought on by being too thin and exercising to exhaustion...
Ginsberg is a Washington, D.C. lawyer who worked as the Bush reelection campaign’s top outside counsel. He resigned abruptly in August 2004 after the Bush campaign learned he had advised Swift Boat Veterans for Truth—a group that made questionable claims against the Vietnam War record of Sen. John F. Kerry, Bush’s Democratic opponent...
Well, [co-writer John Weidman] and I let it marinate for a year, and we're going back to what we originally wrote. What we wrote was something very swift, and very Hope-Crosbyish about America and about a period of American enterprise, and that got lost in the subsequent productions of the show...
...Senate Judiciary Committee was also sent a letter by a bipartisan group of 156 members of the D.C. Bar, all of whom urged Roberts’s swift confirmation. “He is one of the very best and most highly respected appellate lawyers in the nation, with a deserved reputation as a brilliant writer and oral advocate” the letter said. “He is also a wonderful professional colleague both because of his enormous skills and because of his unquestioned integrity and fair-mindedness...
...been converted. If you judge him from the point of view of a pure abolitionist, Douglass said, "Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent." But, he went on, "measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined...