Word: swiftness
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Along the so-called "high energy" beaches, where the water is turbulent and the currents swift, the offshore sand level can rise and fall as much as 4 ft. in half a day. Most beaches are subject to extremely heavy erosion during winter storms, then are rebuilt by sand-bearing currents during the summer. But, says Joseph Caldwell, head of the Beach Erosion Board of the Army Corps of Engineers, "the beaches generally wash out more each winter than they get built back each summer...
...Swift Realignment. More conservative now than when it approved a 1966 open-housing bill that was afterwards killed in the Senate, the House might have doomed this year's measure. Some 60 G.O.P. liberals supported the bill but were chary of bucking House Republican Leader Gerald Ford's opposition...
AFTER three years of ever more furious combat, after dozens of feints and one-sided gestures toward conciliation, the U.S. and North Viet Nam finally moved in the same direction at the same time. The first half step, when it occurred, was just as swift as it was unforeseen...
Reaction was swift and encouraging. Australia, France and the U.S. all began planning last week for open tournaments of their own; in Forest HilHills, N.Y., the governors of the West Side Tennis Club, long a shrine of amateurism and site of the U.S. National grass court championships, voted to convert the Nationals into a U.S. Open and ante up prize money for the pros. With a whole series of open tourna ments in prospect, there was talk of such old pros as Lew Hoad, Frank Sedgman and Althea Gibson coming out of retirement. And the thought of making an honest...
...target is a particularly tempting and well-authorized one for Irish assassins from Swift to Shaw: the smug face of English hypocrisy, personified in this case by a sanctimonious divorce judge named Sir Toby Routh. His fiercely prudish sermons from the bench drive adulterers to suicide and his wife to drink. He is as pompous a prig as ever rode a Rolls to work and pride to a fall. But the only tumble Miss Tracy gives him is into the downy bed of Gerda Trauenegg, a well-tuned opera singer from Vienna. Catching him with his wig down, Gerda momentarily...