Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the war, as deputy to De Lattre, Salan went back to his old colonial paradise of Indo-China, which was now threatened by nationalist rebels under Communist Ho Chi Minh. The struggle against the Communists proved a nightmare that dragged on for years and pitted swift guerrillas against a ponderous French army fighting a classic war with tanks, planes and heavy artillery. It was like trying to swat mosquitoes with a sledge hammer...
Denials of the Daily News story were swift. Cried Rockefeller's press secretary, Robert McManus: "Completely untrue...
From Washington, State Department reaction to the deal was swift and damning: to propose trading Cardinal Mindszenty for U.S. reconciliation with the Kadar regime or for dropping the Hungarian question from the U.N. agenda is simply a form of blackmail...
...Status Symbol. The child classics run from Dean Swift to Tom Swift, from Defoe and his immortal castaway to Mark Twain's raft, adrift forever on the Mississippi. Alice is still in Wonderland, and the Ancient Mariner is there to remind the buyer that man was a poet before he learned prose and that a child who is fobbed off with baby-talk doggerel is not only being robbed but nudged into the cozy horrors of the remedial-reading set. Treasure Island and The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle may still be bought, and it is a good thing...
...cronies who are widely believed to be lining their pockets at government expense; the basing of army promotions on merit rather than on personal loyalty to Diem; the creation of a centralized intelligence agency instead of the present plethora of police, army and administrative systems, whose rivalry prevents swift movement against the elusive Red guerrillas; a widespread implementation of land reform to win back the invaluable support of the Vietnamese peasants, who are now either pro-Communist or indifferent to both sides...