Word: swiftness
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...Israel to make any concession whatsoever, and thus redouble Arab hesitancy about bargaining. Says Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan Ah of Egypt, the only Arab state that has diplomatic relations with Israel: "You cannot start negotiations when the Israelis are occupying an Arab capital." Still, the swift, outraged worldwide reaction to the massacre might pressure Israel into pulling out of Beirut sooner than it had wished...
Crenshaw's debut gives a swift shot in the arm to the moribund pop-rock world. Record sales are way down, new and true talent rare, and it takes prehistoric monsters like Fleetwood Mac and Crosby. Stills and Nash to deliver the goods. On Marshall Crenshaw, every last track could easily put most of the FM top forty to shame. Eleven perfect singles are served up, each one seemingly stronger than its predecessor. Furthermore, Crenshaw's melodies are hopelessly addictive; they're just short enough to hook the listener but not entirely satisfy him. Back in the '60s, John Lennon...
...increase in the state's already high cigarette tax. James True of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts said yesterday that an amendment will now be proposed calling for funding to come out of current cigarette tax revenues. He predicted that the change would lead to swift passage...
...almost as though some grand, cosmic accountant was exacting from her, in one lump sum, all the dues she never before had to pay. All along she had seemed exempt from the routine pains and troubles that plague the lives of ordinary folk. And then, in one swift and terrifying moment, Princess Grace fell to Earth...
...shape his entire life. "A new specimen of human being was born," he wrote in his memoirs of those days, "a specimen completely unknown to the world for over 1,800 years, the fighting Jew." After a year in Soviet prisons, Begin went to Palestine and in swift order was leading the Irgun's violently anti-Arab and anti-British campaigns...