Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high-level hoax stirred a furor in Washington last week, the Reagan Administration denied that it had orchestrated a campaign to mislead the public. "We didn't tell any lies," said the President, although he admitted "there are memos back and forth . . . I can't deny that." A quick report from the Senate Intelligence Committee seemed to support Reagan's disavowal. Whether or not some Government officials leaked false information, explained a member of the committee's staff, there was no deliberate policy behind...
...developing contingency plans for a 'Chad Option.' " Finally, the Journal claimed that the "Sea Wind" exercises, long-planned U.S.-Egyptian maneuvers under way in the Mediterranean at the time of its Aug. 25 story, "are intended to keep the Libyans off balance and to assemble forces in case a quick, punishing strike at Libya is needed." A White House memo to CIA Director William Casey underlined the point. It suggested that "overt (military) operations will also be required to give credibility to rumors that the U.S. intends to take further military action...
...Anderson was quick to point out, there are "not that many croquet lawns around here...
...been quietly inching toward a bargain on the highly charged issue of intermediate- range nuclear forces, one that for the first time would significantly reduce -- rather than just set a ceiling on -- the number of nuclear weapons. At the U.N. last week, Reagan and Shevardnadze raised hopes for a quick agreement; in ( Geneva, Soviet and American negotiators are close to filling in some key numbers. The emerging deal: the Soviets would drop their insistence that any INF accord be linked to ones involving long-range strategic arms and space- based defensive weapons; INF warheads in Europe would be slashed...
...parents may be confounded by the fact that children are blatantly freer than they are themselves. A subculture of young people slide about the house, so much more alert than their parents to changes in music, movies, codes of dress; quick as terriers; loose as geese; all things that age is not. The power of parents lies in experience and work. The power of children lies in the freedom from those things. Parents, who cannot retrieve that sort of freedom, may regard it with bewilderment, even resentment. They keep their distance...