Word: swiftness
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...Maybe Harvard could take a hint from this and put wallpaper in the rooms," said Randy Young '86, adding. "They could at least hire Loretta Swift as an Expos teacher...
...course Harvard's system has critics who question some of the hows and whys of the Ad Board's closed-door proceedings. Yet Princeton's system makes Harvard's seem more than tolerable. Harvard has no explicit honor code, though it of course encourages academic honesty and deals swift punishment to discovered plagiarists and cheats. But its methods lack the problems inherent in Princeton's student-run system...
...week of stunning, swift disaster in China. Nearly a million Communist troops along a 400-mile front poured across the broad Yangtze, Nationalist China's last great defensive barrier, and swept government positions aside like puny earthworks in a raging tide. In four days they took Nanking, cut off Shanghai, and captured half a dozen cities...
...denouement was jarring in its swift resolution and therefore a bit surreal. Nearly 800 days after the Watergate breakin, 289 days after the Saturday Night Massacre, 97 days after the White House transcripts were released, twelve days after the Supreme Court voted, 8 to 0, that the President must surrender 64 more tapes, five days after the House Judiciary Committee voted out articles of impeachment, Nixon's defenses finally vanished. On Monday he issued the June 23, 1972, transcript that amounted to a confession to obstruction of justice and to lying to the American people. With that his clock...
When coats were stowed under seats, house lights extinguished, the audience was shown the exterior of a large New England home, a portico of deathly paleness only partially masking the building's sepulchral grey face. Here dwell the Mannons. With swift, sure strokes a long story is told...