Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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INDOCHINA. The swift and almost uncontested Communist offensive in South Viet Nam raised an unsettling question: Had 50,000 American lives and $150 billion in U.S. aid been spent in vain? The government of Nguyen Van Thieu was proving much weaker than had been thought, and the fast fallback of his forces approached an all-out rout. Obviously, U.S. intelligence about Thieu and his powers had been grievously faulty. First, the former imperial capital of Hue fell to the Communists; then so did five more provinces, bringing the total under their control to 13 (out of 44). But the real...
...other people; second, for the miasma of the thirties, the thrill of the moment when you can no longer be sure that the roller coaster you're on is going to carry you up again, and you just lay back and abandon yourself to the pleasures of a swift rocketing downwards...
...starting up schools or transit systems. In processing applications for bond guarantees or for federal subsidies for low-income housing, HUD also ensnarled the applicants in reams of unnecessary red tape. "Decisions are made, unmade and obfuscated to a degree that makes the imperial Chinese bureaucracy appear decisive and swift-moving," says Mark Freeman, executive director of the League of New-Community Developers. The effect has been to stifle the very experimentation that Congress had called...
...swift rise in the documentary derby is part of a network strategy to fill a partial vacuum in network programming. CBS and NBC mount full-length documentaries from time to time, but not regularly. CBS' excellent 60 Minutes generally tackles a number of subjects each week in what TV journalists call a magazine format, as does its monthly NBC counterpart Weekend...
Fabled Cipangu. These contrasts, within its art, between the spartan coarseness of a tea receptacle and the patient refinement of a makie lacquer box, between the swift brushwork of an ink painting and the daunting accumulation of labor represented by the embroidery of a silk No costume, have always given the Momoyama period a peculiar interest to Western eyes. This half-century was the point in Japanese culture that, in its secular largesse and curiosity about the real world, most resembled the European Renaissance. Indeed, it was during the Momoyama that the West's idea of Japan was shaped...