Word: swiftness
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...minute prepared speech, Arena said that Israel's swift destruction of Russian-made equipment had significantly changed the perception of Russian influence in the Mideast and the world...
...give society the retribution it is due. But punishment should be handed out fairly. When an inmate sees police, judges and politicians, the same people who draft and enforce laws, receiving wrist slaps for conduct that landed him in the slammer for years, the lesson of sure and swift punishment is lost...
...says, sending a swift shot to the rake's midriff and pulling his coat down from his shoulders, thus locking the charlatan's hands in his pockets. Instead of disarming the sap as Bogart does at a moment just like this in The Maltese Falcon, Henry sends the bum sprawling into the gutter with an efficient trip. He flips up Higginbottom's coattails and, performing a maneuver familiar to most 11-year-olds as a "wedgle," pulls the elastic of his victim's underwear far into the pitiless...
...thought--King Specials! Scram, scum," he cries after a quick examination of the jockeys. With a swift kick in the shins he rolls the fop across the cobblestone lane, secure in the feeling of a job well done...
...perhaps the final act by a leader West Germans had celebrated as der Macher (the Doer). Schmidt has played a key role in steering the nation to unprecedented prosperity and international respect during his 30 years in politics, eight of them as Chancellor. True to form, in one swift, decisive action Schmidt had moved to break West Germany's festering political crisis and shouldered the responsibility of bringing about the collapse of his own government. In so doing, he paved the way for his probable replacement by Christian Democratic Opposition Leader Helmut Kohl...