Word: quick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...centers; within two hours maintenance workers began heating up coke ovens in Pittsburgh. By midweek the first pig iron would pour down white-hot from ten-story-high blast furnaces, thence become raw steel within less than 24 hours, bars and sheets within a week or so. Despite these quick reactions, the injunction was little more than an 80-day aspirin for an economy aching for a real cure of the steel crisis...
...which makes a 90° turn), the light has been known to flick from red to green and hold for only 16 seconds-just long enough to let three left-turning cars through, and get the piled-up traffic rolling. Then its timer snaps through a quick-as-the-eye amber warning to a red stop...
Though in quick headline-reading terms the conclusion was disappointing to Laos and the West, the circumstantial evidence cited in the body of the U.N. report left little doubt where the blame lay in Laos. The committee examined captured North Viet Nam uniforms, rifles made in China and Czechoslovakia, hand grenades and medical supplies bearing Chinese lettering. Laotian witnesses testified that troops attacking them were identifiable as North Vietnamese not only by their green uniforms but by their language ("Mau! Mau!"-Quick! Quick!) and even by the common rice they ate (Laotians eat glutinous rice). Ten captured Pathet Lao rebels...
...Harrison," yelled his roommate from the living room, "how about 'The quick brown for jumps over the lazy dog?' That way you could capture the totality of the alphabet while retaining that basic Oriental structure. Or how about 'Foggy day in London town,' capturing that Anglo-Oriental music hall essence...
Horror and consternation reign in the daffy duchy, whose rulers had not intended to win the war at all but to lose it. The whole object was to get rich quick on U.S. appropriations for war relief...