Word: hastier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...situation was further complicated when Moscow's Pushkin Museum beat the Hermitage to the punch by setting up in February a hastier and less focused show of Impressionist paintings, together with some older ones by Goya, El Greco and others. Its director, Irina Antonova, a cultural bureaucrat in the traditional Soviet style, made no suggestion that these works were going anywhere after the show-least of all to Germany. "Soviet troops saved these artworks, while the fascists wrecked ours," she declared at a press conference. "We deserve some form of compensation...
...Lurk beside an occupied computer, sticking their faces intrusively into the e-mailer's personal space in hopes of scaring him or her into a hastier logout. This is the most popular tactic, especially during peak hours...