Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lovable Diplomat. Australia's swift expulsion of Skripov is understandable. In 1954, MVD Colonel Vladimir Petrov, who also had been posing as a lovable diplomat, defected to the West with an armful of secret documents that described widespread Soviet snooping operations Down Under. Caught Redhanded, the Russians broke off diplomatic relations, did not reopen their Canberra embassy for five years...
...hobby of statistics pointed out to me recently that the average date of graduation of the present members of the Board of Overseers was 1924. Even the most cursory glance at the University during the past year quickly reveals what a different place it has become in four swift decades...
...catches," depend for their spice on stout voices singing the lyrics alternately. As the lyrics interweave, words overlap and innocent verses yield bright fruit: a catch that begins "He tickled her fancy and told her his tale" is sure to come out "And he fancy-tickled her tail." Jonathan Swift was an eager catch lyricist, but the biggest tease of all was Henry Purcell, the saintly master of the High Church hymn. After hours, Purcell forsook cantatas in favor of catches and "hockets"-a trick of song in which a voice may boldly interject one word of a verse...
...years since the first Polaroid cameras began developing and printing their own black-and-white snapshots in a matter of seconds. Though photographers have been yearning ever since for someone to produce an equally swift, self-processing color film, most chemists agreed that the job was incredibly difficult. It seemed improbable that it would ever be accomplished...
...Frank Perry, 32, her second husband and formerly an associate producer at New York's Theater Guild. He decided the story had high dramatic possibilities but realized that it would never work as a play, being far too fragmentary in its details, too much a series of swift sketches covering a full year in time. It should do beautifully as a movie. But who would write the script? Who would direct? They looked at each other...