Word: swiftness
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...strikes with the swift, clawed fury of a pouncing cat-and jet pilots call it by that name. CAT (for clear air turbulence) can swat a jetliner down a mile in a minute flat, paste passengers to the ceiling, and rip the wings from light planes. Many CAT victims go uncounted because up to now CAT has been invisible...
...October 1962, when he set up a naval blockade that forced Nikita Khrushchev to remove the missiles that the Soviets had sneaked into Cuba. During that dramatic showdown, which both Kennedy and Khrushchev later said had brought the world to the brink of thermonuclear war, Kennedy said: "This secret, swift and extraordinary buildup of Communist missiles-in an area well known to have a special and historical relationship to the U.S. and the nations of the Western Hemisphere-is a deliberately provocative and unjustified change in the status quo, which cannot be accepted by this country if our courage...
What appeared to be a curse turned out to be a blessing, as McCluskey, unable to risk throwing the ball so deep in his own territory, gave it to Leo Swift instead. Swift took it all the way to the Elis 35-yard Swift took it all the way to the Elis 35-yard the one. But Gary Halpern's run for two points after fell a yard short, and the Crimson still trailed...
McCluskey kept the team on the ground and marched them to a fourth and one situation on the Eli nine. From there Swift took it all the way for the lead touchdown after three minutes of the last period...
...American Affairs and Dubois became associated with this group. But in 1946 the Cold War began and in 1947 the Justice Department issued a list of "subversive" organizations; it included the Council in its witch-hunt. DuBois' refusal to eschew either his views or his associations led to his swift dismissal from the NAACP...