Word: swiftness
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...bore a son and a daughter to her husband Morris, a lukewarm Zionist from whom she was later separated (he has since died). Mrs. Meir preferred politics to housekeeping and joined the Histadrut, the Jewish Labor Federation. Her rise after that in the government and Labor Party was swift...
Quantity consumed is only one criterion-and not necessarily the decisive one. "We see little old ladies who drink less than a pint a day who are dying," says Harold Swift, of the Hazelden Foundation's model treatment facility in Minnesota. "Yet we see men who go through better than a fifth a day and still function well...
Higginson said, "You can't judge the new coaching impetus. They have a very light, swift boat, and they've looked good out on the river from what I've seen of them...
...heavy personal cost to the Nixons, the White House doubtless wishes that somehow the books could be snapped shut as decisively and relatively cleanly on Watergate as they were last week on the President's tax problems. Of course, they cannot be. But a lesson lurks in the swift disposition of the case of Nixon's taxes. It was the White House's full and prompt cooperation with the tax investigators that sped the resolution of the affair...
...Vietnam Summer, a nationwide antiwar canvassing group whose local affiliate, Michael Walzer's Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam, collected 8000 signatures for a referendum on the swift return home of all American soldiers in Vietnam. About 39 per cent of Cambridge voted for the resolution, and both doves and hawks claimed victory...