Word: swiftness
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Iraq's initial blitz had clearly failed to produce anything like the swift and easy victory that Baghdad may have anticipated. Iraq evidently miscalculated Iran's military resilience. After an initial withdrawal in the face of the Iraqis' surprise invasion along a 500-mile front, Iran rebounded with a vengeance. Iraqi claims about the capture of four cities inside Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province in the first week of fighting proved to be embarrassingly premature. While Iranian main forces, an amalgam of Islamic Revolutionary Guards, border guards and army troops, took on the Iraqi regulars...
Stunned by the swift, six-minute sentencing, relatives of the defendants burst into an impassioned chorus of the national anthem. Plainclothes police hastily dragged them from the courtroom. Kim, pale and wan from 60 days of solitary confinement and constant interrogation that he said had driven him to the brink of insanity, attempted to smile bravely as he was led away. The immediate reaction in South Korea, still under tight martial law, was muted. But the verdict evoked outrage in other countries. In Japan, trade unions and student organizations mounted a series of protest demonstrations. In West Germany, Foreign Minister...
...athletes. "You've got to have chickens," says Bryant, "before you can make chicken salad." He now leaves most of the barnstorming to ten assistants, but in his time he was a courtly and soft-spoken charmer who persuaded parents in order to win over their strong and swift sons.* To sell Alabama, his staff tells prospects, with veracity, that they will have a chance to play on a national championship team if they come with the Bear. Rival coaches try to turn Bryant's reputation to their advantage. Says Auburn Coach Doug Barfield: "We have to sell...
...along with six automatic coin receptacles, handle the 16 lanes of the bridge's two Delaware-side toll plazas, he is much too busy raking in the cash. Sixty cents a car, $1.50 a bus, $2.50 for a big five-axle tractor trailer. So many tolls in swift, five-second transactions that on a peak day the bridge can bring...
...sequence that in some miraculous way develops a central theme and relates it to the rest of human experience." In fact, in the annals of world literature, the unrestrained essayist (essai: attempt, trial, experiment) has always kept courageous and often dangerous company: Plato, Cicero, Carlyle, Swift, Twain, and scores of others who have helped forge our appreciation for clear thought and fresh language. Today the accomplishments of the modern essayist are no less important, and certainly no less varied and appealing...