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Word: swiftness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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...swearing on court, hitting balls into the stands, and even heaving their rackets at spectators. Snapped Australian Tennis Boss Norman Strange: "Disgusting. In 36 years of tennis I have never seen anything so bad as their court behavior." Another official suggested that the young Americans, particularly Buchholz, needed "a swift kick in the pants." After Sirola's win, the Australian press gleefully reported that the Americans blew off steam in their dressing room by knocking a couple of holes in the wall. Later they enlivened an airline flight to Sydney by throwing around wads of toilet paper, managed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Laughing Boy & The Weeper | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

...DIVERSIFICATION will keep Swift & Co., Armour & Co. and Cudahy Packing Co. from expanding into sales of nonmeat products such as fish, vegetables, flour, sugar, cigars, china and furniture. U.S. District Court reaffirmed 40-year-old antitrust decree that bars the big packers from entering retail trade, which they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Dec. 26, 1960 | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

Last year 6,000 German troops, joining U.S. Seventh Army veterans in "Winter-shield" maneuvers along the Danube, put on a dazzling show. In one swift swoop, a German armored unit, theoretically knocked out a battalion of Seventh Army tankers and infantrymen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Watchman on the Rhine | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

...every department. Cinematography and cutting are impeccable, and the actors are masterfully maneuvered. But the fundamental strength of the film derives from a script that, when due allowance is made for the slovenly (though heartfelt) book on which it is based, seems an amazing achievement: clear, intelligent, subtle, witty, swift, strong, eloquent. Ironically, the script is bringing Hollywood embarrassment as well as riches. It is the work of a well-known, long jobless member of the Fifth Amendment fringe named Dalton Trumbo, who was also responsible for the brilliant scenario of Spartacus (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 19, 1960 | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

...gilt-edged offers from all over the U.S., Nixon politely rejected several bids to head foundations, universities and corporations. He has all but decided to take a senior partnership in a Los Angeles corporate-law firm, probably Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, which counts among its clients such blue chips as Swift & Co., Safeway Stores Inc.-and the Republican Party of California. The pay would probably come to a tidy sum of more than $100,000 a year before taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Nixon's Future | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

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