Word: quick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Careful students of the game were quick to point out that it is essential for the phone to be in the booth, for it is absolutely necessary that one of the crowd be able to answer the phone if it should ring. There are no extra credits awarded for placing a call midst the squash, and if the boys can get a few coeds to join in, there should be no necessity to call...
...After a quick personal investigation of the evidence in the January riots. Van Hemelrijck decided that Joseph Kasavubu, 41, the fanatic leader of the ultranationalist Abako organization, had been falsely arrested for fomenting them. He ordered Kasavubu and two other Abako leaders released. Then he had the three men bundled onto a military plane loaded with paratroopers headed home on furlough. When the plane landed in Brussels, everyone from Premier Gaston Eyskens on down was astounded. Van Hemelrijck had done some daring things in his time, but no one had ever expected him to bring home in freedom the very...
...Congo affairs Belgium does not wish to appear divided, he got their grudging approval. When a Member of Parliament asked the Premier whether Van Hemelrijck had given advance notice to the Cabinet, Eyskens answered: "No, but the minister has such heavy responsibilities that he must be free to make quick decisions...
...mouthpiece newspaper, Revolutión. Last week, in a Page One Revolutión editorial, Castro gave the first real sign that he might heed the mounting chorus against his "war criminal" circus trials and grisly firing squads. "It is necessary," declared the editorial, "to put a quick end to the proceedings. The executions should be stopped...
...stingy gun is a concealed derringer. The border shift is a quick method of transferring a gun from one hand to the other. The road agent's spin was used when a man was forced to surrender his gun. As he handed it to his enemy, butt first, he slipped his forefinger through the trigger-guard, at the last minute spun the butt back into his palm and started chucking lead...