Word: swiftness
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...tense days before the Six-Day War erupted, the 2,700,000 people of Israel were concerned but confident. When the war ended with a swift and resounding victory, their morale soared. But last week, on the third anniversary of the war, their mood was souring into one of gloom and uncertainty, and they were beginning to wonder whether they had really won a war, or merely the opening skirmish of a war. Frontier terrorism, constant clashes on the Suez Canal and anxiety about Soviet intentions have created a profound political and psychological malaise...
...forces into Cambodia, evidently without realizing the outcry of protest that this would provoke, he set off angry charges that he is too isolated from many sections of American opinion. Interior Secretary Walter Hickel pleaded that Nixon pay more attention to the young, complained that he got a swift brush-off from the President's staff?and reported that he had been able to see Nixon alone exactly twice since taking office 16 months before...
...NATO countries in a pet Soviet project, the European Security Conference. The Soviet goal in such a conference is undoubtedly to confirm existing borders in Europe and to undermine the rationale for NATO by offering guarantees against aggression in Europe. But the ministers had badly misreckoned. In a swift riposte, Tass, the Soviet government news agency, described the idea of mutual troop reductions as "absolutely unacceptable to the Socialist countries...
...prices would drop-and then a large number of shareholders panicked and dumped their holdings simultaneously, sending prices plummeting on enormous volume. While such a "selling climax" is an unnerving experience, many Wall Streeters would dearly love to see one again. By cleaning out the last doubters in one swift rout, the old-fashioned climax would usually end a bear market and set the stage for a bouncy rally to new highs...
...experience -rather like trying to explain a Groucho Marx joke to someone who has never heard of Groucho Marx. In desperation Barthelme critics sometimes resort to the comparison gambit, frantically coupling their man with a host of others in the course of one review. The catalogue ranges from Dickens, Swift and Joyce to Kafka, Nabokov and Henry Miller...