Word: swiftness
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...Dartmouth, the Crimson cindermon won all but two events and set a new two-mile relay record, 3:16.2, with Jim Smith, Jim Swift, Neil Houston, Charles Redman running the four legs...
...swift three hours, the Radcliffe conference attempted to explore the gamut of problems presented by the content and approach of the University's General Education program. The meeting, sponsored semi-annually by the Radcliffe Government Association, could not plunge as deeply into the problem as the one-and-a-half year old Doty Committee, but they made some soundings...
...Administration's decision to sell off some $2.3 billion in such federal assets as housing mortgages. G.O.P. Representative Tom Curtis of Missouri, ranking House minority member of the Joint Economic Committee, took note of this disparity and complained that the President had rigged the budget to achieve swift expansion in Election Year...
Bows & Arrows. The transition was swift and bloody. Led by a fanatical Uganda-born and Cuban-trained "field marshal" named John Okello, 27, a ragtag, 600-man army carrying pangas, bows and arrows raided two police armories. Then the rebels swept into Zanzibar Town before dawn, passing out guns to Afro-Shirazis and members of the outlawed Red Chinese-orientated Umma Party. In less than twelve hours, the Arab government of Sultan Seyyid Jamshid bin Abdulla had fallen, its ministers were in jail, and the 34-year-old sultan himself was hurrying toward asylum in Tanganyika...
...Concorde's. Boeing's design is the most advanced, employing a "variable-sweep" wing that can be adjusted to different settings. By extending its wings, Boeing's SST could take off and land at the same speeds as supersonic jets, tucking in its wings for swift supersonic flight...