Word: swiftness
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...announcement that he would resign seemed to have stunned Shamir. "I don't think he is hungry for the job," confided an aide. But the new leader of the Herut Party, the largest group in the Likud bloc, moved decisively to assure Israelis that the transition would be swift and smooth. Shamir said that one of his immediate goals would be "the consolidation and expansion of the political achievements already reached...
Anka Muhlstein, a Parisian who has written about Proust and Queen Victoria, gives a vivid account of the Rothschild empire, the brothers' enormous shrewdness and energy, their speculations and boundless reserves of money, their private "code" for sensitive business letters, and their swift couriers...
...Jonathan Swift's 30 John F Kennedy...
...ascendancy of William Patrick Clark in Washington has been swift and, to many, unsettling. The Judge, as he is called, still wears cowboy boots with his three-piece suits and acts like a country lawyer. But this son of a hardscrabble California rancher has come a long way since his 1981 Senate confirmation hearings for Deputy Secretary of State, when his embarrassing ignorance of foreign affairs (he could not define detente or Third World) made him the butt of jokes around the globe...
...style in office also set him apart from his predecessors. Blunt in speech and swift of decision, he proved to be a charismatic leader who handled foreign and domestic affairs with equal ease...