Word: hurriedness
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Newark never looked so good as it did when I stepped off the plane onto good old terra firma. There was not time to offer a sacrifice to whatever God had delivered me, so I hurried to the Boston gate. Luck was mine again, and an hour later, I was...
Reagan brooded about it as he hurried through his morning briefing on the aftermath of the hijacking of the Achille Lauro. Although U.S. intelligence had pinpointed the terrorists in Egypt, and a scheme was being hatched to try and capture them if they fled, they were still out of reach...
Dinner at The Yankee ends on a high note with an irresistable sweet potato pecan pie or the slightly less stellar bread pudding. Service is prompt, if sometimes hurried, and the portions are more than adequate.
An epidemic of yellow fever struck Philadelphia in August 1793. Eyes glazed, flesh yellowed, minds went delirious. People died, not individually, here and there, but in clusters, in alarming patterns. A plague mentality set in. Friends recoiled from one another. If they met by chance, they did not shake hands...
No use getting too upset, I told myself. At least, as the first one to arrive, I would have the privilege of picking the better of the two bedrooms. The first things I saw when I opened the left bedroom door were cans. Dozens and dozens of empty Bud cans...