Word: swiftness
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...classiest opponents look bad. Heavyweight Champion Joe Frazier found out the hard way: in the process of winning two decisions from Oscar, the champ was flattened twice and had to suffer through 25 punishing rounds. Now it was Ali's turn. He was still fresh from a swift third-round T.K.O. and he needed a real tune-up before his own bout with Frazier...
...security measure, the Prime Minister invoked emergency police powers -something that had never been done in peacetime in tolerant, democratic Canada-and sent battalions of special police and troops into Quebec to deal with what he called an "insurrection, real or apprehended." The F.L.Q.'s response was swift and savage. Less than two days after Trudeau's action, Laporte was found in the trunk of a car, dead by strangulation. Little hope was held out that Jasper Cross would ever be found alive...
...irritated other Cabinet members, who feel that he wants to give away too much for too little. Dayan has had no qualms about being an irritant or proposing radical ideas; as the fighting hero of Israel's 1956 war and the Defense Minister who engineered its swift 1967 victory, he is an immensely popular public figure...
This sort of feeling has given rise to a special variation of the intricate signal that black soldiers in Viet Nam exchange when they meet. The standard greeting includes two taps on the chest -meaning "I will die for you." In Soul Alley, some blacks add a swift downward motion of the hand-a stroke to kill...
...power to seize what is spiritually relevant. The monk Hakuin Ekaku meditated on a terrifying Buddhist deity and expressed that terror by simply "writing" the deity's name-the heavy strokes conveying a menace beyond what the ideograms spell out: "Blue-countenanced Bearer of the Thunderbolt." A swift sketch of two cackling women gets the inscription...