Word: swiftness
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...shown a gift for playing on all kinds of grievances, legitimate and otherwise. She decries Pakistan's poverty, particularly in the remote eastern half of the country, which has long felt bitterly that it is being neglected by the government. She harps on corruption, and especially on the swift advancement of Ayub Khan's eldest son, Gauhar, who resigned his army captaincy to become a bigwig in Ghandara Industries, which took over a General Motors assembly plant after the U.S. owners sold out for a million dollars. Above all, she keeps accusing Ayub of being a dictator...
...Forgive Them, Lord." In Indianapolis, Johnson said: "Only those should lead us who, in the words of the Scripture, are 'swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.' As long as I am President, that will be my policy." He pointed to the cross atop a nearby Episcopal cathedral and implored his followers to "turn the other cheek" when political opponents say "ugly things." "Forgive them, Lord," cried Johnson. "They know not what they...
Pierre has a swift, sharp mind and salts his addresses with impressive statistics. But lately he has been spending much of his time defending himself against Murphy's "carpetbagger" charges, and trying to convince the voters that he is not a Falstaff but a statesmanlike sort. It isn't easy. Not long ago, for example, he found himself confronted by a Los Angeles audience so hostile that he probably wished that he was out there with Wendell Corey and George Muffin...
Like Black Marbles. The Air Force trundled not one, but two A-11s onto the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., had a third one disassembled in side an Edwards hangar for close-up observation. From the side, the swift ship looks like a stretched-out version of the X-15 rocket ship. From the front, the effect is just as strange; two bulbous engine nacelles above the razor-thin wing look like black marbles perched precariously on a strand of wire; the thin vertical tail surfaces, canted noticeably inward, jut upward like giant insect antennae...
...Fine Arts 257) John Milton (English 131) Freidrich Nietzsche (Philosophy 235) Pindar (Philosophy 278b) Plato (Classical Philology 236b, Philosophy 102) Aleksander Pushkin (Slavic 152) H.H. Richardson (Fine Arts 274) Rainer Maria Rilke (German 269) Friedrich Schiller (German 113) William Shakespeare (English 124, English 229) Edmund Spenser (English 222) Jonathan Swift (English 247) Terence (Philosophy 265a) Thucydides (Greek 106a) Tibullus (Classinal Philology 261a) Leo Tolstoy (Slavic 157) Ivan Turgenev (Slavic 158) Virgil (Latin 106a) Ludwing Wittgenstein (Philosophy...