Word: swiftness
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London's response to the new violence was swift and decisive. Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced that some 600 troops from the crack Spearhead Battalion would be dispatched from England to South Armagh. In addition, 400 men of the predominantly Protestant Ulster Defense Regiment were deployed in the county. In a more drastic move, some 150 men of the elite Special Air Services Regiment (SAS) will be sent to Ulster. The dispatch of this counter insurgency strike force, which is specially trained to conduct guerrilla operations behind enemy lines, indicated that for the first time since the troubles began...
...Sears, the new office will be filled by Chairman Arthur M. Wood, President Dean Swift and Senior Vice Presidents James W. Button and Edward...
...Even the swift, strong Baryshnikov at first felt pushed by the pace of Tharp's choreography. "Misha learned something about dancing fast," says Tharp...
...only guy who hasn't gotten a fair shake," and indeed he's lucky, he knows, to have made it this far. Of his original 26 teammates at Elmira, six are left. Four of his roommates have been cut. When it happens, the sword of justice is swift. "The guy who gets it is always the last to know--I play with guys I know are never going to make it." Same thing with trades. Once Bristol was playing the Milwaukee Double A club. Everything was as usual. The other team took the infield and a big first baseman...
Freshman defenseman Jim Trainor opened the second period with a weak, bouncing slapper from the right point that startled everyone, especially Milner, when it skipped into the net at 1:23. Phelps Swift racked the count up another goal at 2:32, and O'Donoghue embarrassed Milner again, when his shot slid under the PC goaltender's stick and between his legs...