Word: swiftness
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...other means, La Cosa Nostra regards murder as an instrument of business-often conducted with a vengeance. The peculiar vogue that the Mafia is now enjoying in films and books may spring from a kind of stylish atavism that Americans recognize in a brute feudal system that allows swift retribution with no red tape. In part, it simply appeals to the antibureaucratic impulse, the secret instinct that things can be "fixed," even in satisfyingly violent ways. For the moment, many still find the Mob romantically sinister and enterprising, but the popular infatuation may fade now that the bodies are real...
...suddenly one morning you wake up, and the telephone is dead, and the radio is playing old nationalistic military songs, and outside your window you hear the rumble of armored cars in the streets, and officers warning everybody to stay in their houses. It was all so swift and well organized that nobody reacted. Only three people were killed in Athens that day, trying to get out into the streets to see what was happening. The junta boasted on the bloodlessness of their "revolution." During the night of the coup, 16,000 people--mainly members of the Parliament, journalists, labor...
Brash, bold and bent on making it big, 73-year-old Floyd Dewey Gottwald of Richmond, Va., has been running up a remarkable record of swift starts and fast fades. In the early 1940s he turned a little paper company into the world's largest producer of blotting paper; then the blotter market rapidly dried up as the ballpoint pen caught on. Next, Gottwald converted his company into a maker of thick, waterproof paper bags for packaging fertilizer and chemicals, only to see that market crumble when plastic-lined bags came out. In 1962, with his two sons, Gottwald...
Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson, apprised in advance of Heath's plans, pledged "full support," ensuring swift passage in the Commons. But Ulster's eight Unionist Tory M.P.s declared their opposition...
...most eagerly awaited answers involved Mitchell's relationship with ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard, who claimed in her confidential memo to her corporate superiors that Mitchell was "definitely helping us" with the ITT settlement. Mitchell's response was swift and curt. Mrs. Beard approached him three times at a Kentucky Derby party in Louisville, he said, and on the third sally, "I told her in rather harsh terms that I didn't appreciate her approaching me." His message was: shove...