Word: swiftness
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...Berkeley riots, which alienated students and faculty as well as the regents. The board was further annoyed when Kerr in 1965 publicly resigned without first consulting the regents; they persuaded him to reconsider, but many resented the power squeeze. Still another mistake was Kerr's swift reaction to Reagan's initial budget and tuition proposals, when he ordered a temporary hold on student admissions-again without consulting the regents...
Unlike last year's freshman team, which was also excellent, this year's squad relies on its runners. John Dugan, for example, is a swift 1000 man, who finished second in the Big Three in a time faster than any Crimson freshman ever, except Colburn. Jim Fabiani, a dashman who has run consistently well all year, placed third Friday...
...ritual begins with a swift mutual thrust of converging palms, which grasp each other in a crushing grip and pump each other up and down like a frantic seesaw. It is accompanied by a snappy bowing of the head-almost as if to show that the participants have not paralyzed each other. It is, of course, the German handshake, a social act of such importance and frequency that it sometimes seems to dominate German life. More than any other people, the Germans firmly believe that a man's handshake shows his character, and they go through life grasping...
...MacDonald, now 50, has written 600 short stories and 53 books (A Flash of Green, The Girl, the Goldwatch and Everything) that have sold 32 million copies around the world. His fans will know just what ingredients to expect in his newest novel: busy, well populated pages, a swift and intricate plot, strong characters, believable dialogue, a surfeit of sex and violence. The late Ian Fleming, no mean tale spinner himself, said, "I automatically buy every John D. MacDonald as it comes...
...Then, if his wish is fulfilled, he completes the Daruma's missing eye as a symbol of gratitude for otherworldly intervention. Last week, in the Tokyo headquarters of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Premier Eisaku Sato dipped a sumi brush into an inkstone and with swift strokes daubed in the dark right eye of his Daruma. "The eyes," he remarked when he had finished...