Word: swiftness
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...tights." As the wearer of that garment comes forward, the woman next to her winces at having been passed by. After another huddle, Hornaday says, "That's all." Immediately, a silver-haired man with a clipboard steps in from the side of the stage and intones in a swift singsong, "Those in the front line, please wait on the right. For the rest, thank you very much and please leave, as quickly as possible, the way you came in." Silently, like defendants in traffic court, the losers gather their street clothes and slip...
...gorgeous scam, simple in design, swift in execution. It worked like a dream, 65 times in ten weeks. The setup: a fugitive from justice in the Los Angeles area receives notice at his last known address that a package containing $2,000 worth of unspecified goods is waiting for him at FIST Bonded Delivery Courier Service. Curiosity piqued and greed aroused, he calls the number on the notice to arrange delivery. The number he dials happens to be a Marine barracks in Pico Rivera in Los Angeles County. The person he speaks with is working for the U.S. Marshals Service...
...hand-held antiaircraft missiles and 315 missile launchers for $133 million. In addition, the White House has asked Congress to provide $220 million to equip Jordan with a mobile strike force whose 8,000 troops would be available for putting down trouble in the Persian Gulf states or providing swift defense should the Iran-Iraq war suddenly spill out of the gulf...
...become practically impossible by week's end to explain away the swift, spectacular surge of popularity for Gary Hart. It was also practically impossible to explain. All sorts of Americans, Western conservatives and Eastern liberals, clean-cut Jaycees and long-haired factory workers, seemed to fall head over heels for the concept of Gary Hart. For a year he had been one more dark horse in a forgettable pack of dark horses, a sleek but uninspiring Senator from Colorado. His campaign of "new ideas" went nowhere. Walter Mondale, the shoo-in, treated him like an earnest graduate assistant...
Back when Kuhn began his watch, someone quizzed him: "Quick, name two catchers on the St. Louis Browns in the early '40s." Without a blink, Kuhn replied, "Swift and Mancuso." But Ueberroth required a moment to think before mentioning Cincinnati Pitcher Ewell Blackwell among his favorite old players...