Word: swiftness
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...wind was as swift as Carl Lewis, as strong as Vasily Alexeyev, and at least for a half, the Quincy House offense was as potent as 151-proof...
...only U.S. newsmagazine with a fully staffed bureau operation in New Delhi, TIME was prepared for swift action when a wire-service ticker flashed the news of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination. Bureau Chief Dean Brelis, who had seen Mrs. Gandhi only two weeks earlier, instantly began gearing up for his own extensive reporting duties. He assigned Reporter K.K. Sharma to gather a profile of new Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and asked Bureau Manager Deepak Puri and Researcher Arti Ahluwalia to pull together background material on Mrs. Gandhi. Brelis also obtained, exclusively for TIME, the last known photos...
TIME'S economists forecast swift growth in East Asia and Australia...
Last Year's CCL resolved last May 9 that if the clubs did not admit women by October 1 it would consider recommending that the college sever its with them. However this year's members, some of whom are new to the committee, have expressed unwillingness to take swift action without hearing the views of club members...
...name Evelyn Waugh comes unavoidably to mind. Wilson shares some of the comic master's ability to draw character in swift strokes. There are similar conversational nuances, inventive use of irony and a longing for an older order, especially spiritual. "Where there was light-from the headlamps of cars, from streetlamps and shop windows-it seemed to be a fuzzy, half-hearted sort of light, almost conspiring with the dark to lose itself in blackness. The windows of the Abbey glowed dimly like old jewels. Behind them, the choir, Dean and Chapter had recently acknowledged that they had followed...