Word: swiftness
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...announce the swift and solid landing
After unsuccessful passes at Swift & Co. and Home Insurance, the ambitious Newman persuaded Heineman to assault Goodrich. The adventure turned out to be costly as well as unavailing. Since it reached a high of 61 last year, Northwest stock has fallen to 13, a drop of 79%. The plunge has cost Newman a personal paper loss of $6.6 million. Why leave, with so much at stake in Northwest? Newman said that he wanted to take advantage of some "tantalizing situations" outside Northwest, but insiders say that he was simply "not having much fun" at the company after things turned sour...
...Drag. The change in atmosphere has been remarkably swift. White House aides concede that the protest movement was rapidly gaining momentum at the time of its nationwide Moratorium Day activities of Oct. 15. The President's Nov. 3 speech urging the "silent majority" to speak out gave thrust to the counterprotesters. Yet his defiant attitude toward antiwar demonstrators also energized the massive peace marches in Washington and San Francisco...
...hour with Diller and Singer Florence Henderson. The rites were relatively decorous-and held down to ten minutes so that there were no commercial interruptions. The cameras stayed discreetly behind the couple as they vowed "to be sweet, gentle, kind, patient, not puffed up, charitable, slow to anger and swift to forgive...
...three angels who dined with Abraham are not described in Genesis. Early Christian painters presented them as strong, manly figures who greatly resembled Abraham. But angels were swift travelers and miraculous beings. By the 4th century A.D., Abraham's visitors had permanently acquired wings and halos. Much thought was given to the thorny question of whether angels were male or female. That dilemma was resolved by St. Thomas Aquinas in 1272, who reasoned that angels could assume whatever aspect they liked but had no bodily functions. Hence they were neither male nor female...