Word: quick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Those who were nabbed told pretty much the same story. Each just happened to be driving through Apalachin (from points as far distant as Los Angeles, Kansas City, Dallas and Tucson), just happened to notice lights on in the Barbara house, just happened to stop in for get-well-quick wishes to ailing Joe Barbara, who is a cardiac case. By equal coincidence, Barbara just happened to have on hand a few steaks (200 lbs.) to feed the boys...
...Force General Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was hospitalized for quick surgery for lung cancer; doctor's prognosis: he will be away from his desk for a minimum of five or six weeks (acting chairman: General Maxwell Taylor, Army Chief of Staff...
...proxies, their homework done, gathered in Geneva before a thousand staring cameras, with no high hopes. The very first interplay-over tables round or square, over Germans at the table or beside it (see below)-was the kind of picayune fuss that discredits the whole practice of diplomacy. The quick-witted journalists surrounding the closed room, flitting from one briefing to another, comparing notes, were agreed on one thing: that East and West would disagree, but not disastrously -and pass the buck up to Eisenhower, Khrushchev, Macmillan and De Gaulle. If Geneva ended that way, many would say a plague...
GENEVA, May 19--The Soviet Union today dashed Western hopes for a quick break-through toward Big Three agreement on a suspension of nuclear weapons tests...
After rallying back from two disappointing abysses, the '62 team finished with a respectable 9-4 mark for the year and uncovered some talented prospects for Norm Shepard's varsity nine. Samborski called this year's team inconsistent and not as good as last year's, but he was quick to add that the Yardlings were very impressive when at their peaks...