Word: swiftness
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...government. The point of the government, as has been the point of government in South Asia for at least a thousand years, is to enrich government officials and strengthen the power of the upper castes over the lower, and at this the government is remarkably adroit, efficient, and swift. There are very few construction projects, for example, from which officials fail to achieve their target of bribes, very few internal disturbances from which the peasants gain anything but lip sympathy from the government, very few land reform programs which leave large landowners or bureaucrats (often they...
...crew and agents, striking the wall of the hotel 5½ ft. above the sidewalk. But it had been deflected just enough to her left to miss Ford by about 5 ft. at roughly head level as he bent to get in his limousine. The deflection was caused by the swift reflexive action of Oliver Sipple...
...acronym loosely coined by Inventor Jack Cover from Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle...
Volunteer Hostages. Sadat's reaction was swift and strong. He denounced not the Sinai accord but the terrorists, and instructed his ambassador in Beirut to enlist the help of Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat in ending the incident peacefully. Arafat sent a message to the terrorists pointing out that an operation such as theirs did not serve the Palestinian cause. Meanwhile, Sadat had agreed to have them flown to Algiers if they did not harm their captives. The kidnapers agreed. When an Algerian Ilyushin-18 arrived in Algiers at 3:30 a.m., the three Egyptians, plus the Iraqi...
...catch his eye, joking about expresidents and the like, and finally settling into a long, bitter description of the servility of black workers in a Ford motors plant and the frenzied preparations in the plant when Henry Ford descended from rich mythical America for a visit. There is a swift transition to the play proper one of Styles's customers, Sizwe Banzi, is desparately trying to find a way to stay in white Port Elizabeth beyond his permitted time. He is persuaded by his friend Buntu (also played by Kani) of the utter hopelessness of the effort; Buntu instead takes...