Absolutely". DeFord article: April 16, 2003: Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery are "the swiftest creatures God ever fashioned". Correction: Florence Griffith-Joyner holds the women's world record in the 100-meter dash.
I begin with an April 16, 2003, column in which he called spouses Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery "the swiftest creatures God ever fashioned". While Montgomery has the fastest 100-meter dash in history, I inform him, the women's world record holder is Florence Griffith Joyner.
No longer, it was feared, would people marvel at the high-speed dives and mid-air kills of nature's swiftest creature--a spectacle older than Christianity.
But these weary beasts, rather than slipping quietly into extinction, are still roaring loudly and trampling a lot of real estate, even as the swift new creatures that are supposed to kill them off evolve and proliferate with startling rapidity.
Sloths, which move extremely slowly when they move at all, don't require the sense of balance that a swift, agile creature such as a primate needs.
At one point, something passed across the woods outside like a shudder, and a hush fell over everything, and the boys and the dog all looked at me and their faces were like pale birds taking flight, but my hearing had mercifully shut off whatever had occasioned such swift terror over all creatures of the earth, save me.
The great creatures are swift, agile, and in perfect control of their movements.
"Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarded modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head".
A highly social creature, this swift forages in groups; during the breeding season, chases intensify into spectacular Courtship Falls: Two individuals cling together, pinwheeling several hundred feet before releasing just above the ground.
If the creatures are chimney swifts, just wait a few weeks and they will leave on their own.
