Word: swiftness
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Chuck McDermott and Wheatstraw--Jonathan Swift...
Chuck McDermott and Wheatstraw--Jonathan Swift...
...truism among convicts that "capital punishment means that if you have the capital you don't get the punishment." Given that, what makes Morrow assume that swift justice would mean anything more than swifter pardons for the Richard Nixons and swifter retaliatory lockups for the Joan Littles...
...John Paul I on that happy day last month, Sept. 3, when he was installed as Pope and "Supreme Pastor" for the world's 700 million Roman Catholics. The new Pope was invoking Scripture as a commentary on the conclave that had unexpectedly elected him?and in a swift, single day at that. Last week the text he had chosen took on a different meaning as John Paul died of a massive stroke, just 33 days after he had been chosen as St. Peter's 263rd successor...
...fans all over, put away your bats and gloves in peace now. There really is justice in the world. There really was a pennant race, an autumn appendix to the Summer Game. Baseball is dead in Boston until next April, but its death was swift, fair and bittersweet instead of tragic...