Word: swiftness
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Well aware of the report's general contents for several weeks, the FDA made a swift response. Just two days after its release, the agency announced plans to revoke thousands of food additives previously declared safe under its old sanctioning procedures...
Young: Any further riots will be met with swift massive law enforcement, so riots as a possible tool quickly outlived their usefulness. There are 'three or four viable techniques. There is economic power, which can be mobilized to reward one's friends and punish one's enemies. There is brain power, where one can, through sheer competence, move into strategic places in the Establishment and from that vantage point have an influence on policy. And there is political power. Economic and brain power are both the best long-range instruments. The political can be mobilized immediately...
...themes of his writing in the Civil War. Thus, also, there would have been no Hemingway, who took Crane as a source and guide. Without the presence of Negro American style, our jokes, our tall tales, even our sports would be lacking in the sudden turns, the shocks, the swift changes of pace (all jazz-shaped) that serve to remind us that the world is ever unexplored, and that while a complete mastery of life is mere illusion, the real secret of the game is to make life swing. It is its ability to articulate this tragic-comic attitude toward...
...reports provided an opening for war critics like Senator George McGovern, who seized on B-52 raids on the Plain to charge that "we are going down the same road in Laos [as in Viet Nam], and we are doing it in secret." Richard Nixon's response was swift and apparently candid. On March 6 in Key Biscayne, he outlined the U.S. role in Laos-never before admitted in detail by any Administration-as "supportive and defensive." To emphasize the "limited" nature of the U.S. role, he stated flatly that "no American stationed in Laos has ever been killed...
Aside from acts of sabotage by terrorists within Israel, there were exchanges of fire along the Suez Canal that killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded eleven. Israeli commandos also staged a swift raid on Egyptian units across the canal, and reported killing eight men while losing two. Israeli regulars and Arab guerrillas fought a series of skirmishes along Israel's border with both Lebanon and Syria. Israel admitted suffering two dead and 13 wounded but claimed seven more enemy casualties. Twice on the Jordanian front, Israelis spotted guerrilla ambushes and broke them up with shellfire...