Word: swiftness
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Harvard's super strong cross country team opens its 1968 season at Franklin Park today against Northeastern. It should not be a difficult test, although the Huskies did have a swift freshman squad last year...
...Goldwaters and the Buckleys disdain Wallace and accept the pragmatism of Richard Nixon, there is a large overlap among those who knew in their hearts that Barry was right and those who stand up for America with George. Government has grown so large and social change has been so swift and pervasive that the temptation is to ignore the complex reasons...
...lady took one look at the fellow under the bed and let fly with a series of swift kicks where it counts. Out rolled Anthony Quinn, dodging the barrage. Unrelenting, Anna Magnani followed with a smart boot in the rear, then dumped a strainer of noodles on his head after she had sunk her teeth into his neck. When Quinn complained about that toothy bit not being in the script of the film they were making, The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Magnani silenced him with some logic of her own. "Never mind-I'm supposed to win this fight...
...tournament that was a disaster for the professionals, 13 of whom lost to amateurs, Ashe himself defeated three pros. To get past Okker, a dogged retriever and a swift, agile shotmaker, Ashe had to play his best tennis ever. He hit 26 service aces, prompting Old Pro Pancho Gonzales to marvel that Arthur's cannonball was "the fastest serve since my own." Ashe's flat, accurate backhands were no less ferocious, drawing raves of "fantastic" and "tremendous" from another old master, Don Budge. Okker prolonged the contest as much as he could, but finally stood helpless as Ashe...
...hostile landscape. People gather in isolated hamlets and towns to scratch out their precarious, remote existence. One such town was Kakhk, a cluster of blue-plastered, mud-brick buildings where 7,000 Iranians lived. At 2:17 on a sunny Saturday afternoon, Kakhk ceased to exist. In a few swift moments, it became the victim of Iran's worst earthquake since 1962, when 12,000 people perished. "I was taking a stroll in front of my house, when the ground started to tremble and everything became dark," one grief-stricken survivor, Hossein Hedayat, related last week. "The buildings around...