Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crusader tailback-cornerback Gordon Lockbaum put on a show for the 12,540 in attendance, combining his running, pass receiving, quick-kicking, and defensive play to pose a near-unstoppable quadruple threat...
Summoned by the Royals this month to debut against the last dangling shards of Steve Carlton, Jackson golfed a stupendous foul ball and then beat out a spare single to start his big-league career one for one. He says, "I'm blessed and thankful to be so quick." He struck out three times the next night, but neither sensation moved him. "I'm not the kind to say, 'Hey look, Steve Carlton, a Hall of Famer.' The only time I ever get that excited is the night before I'm going to go fishing or hunting." Within...
...Starke Hathaway and Psychiatrist J.C. McKinley, assesses character, attitudes and behavior by the patterns of responses (true, false, cannot say) to 566 statements. Originally designed to help identify those with psychological problems, the test was widely used in clinical settings during World War II by military officials who wanted quick findings about attitudes toward authority, impulse control, drive to dominate and other potentially troubling aspects of the normal personality...
Playing for time to find supporters, the White House delayed announcement of the veto until after the House quit work for the week, thus preventing a quick override vote in the Democratic-controlled chamber...
...Gotta Have It does, alas, bear some traces of its rushed production schedule and quick script-writing. Although every actor delivers the direct camera addresses with genuine skill and wit, dialogue can occasionally sound forced or recited. Several scenes seem contrived. Take, for example, the Thanksgiving dinner Nola sets up to introduce all the rivals on the theory that "you were all going to meet one day..." Of course, the results are disastrous and Nola should know better than to have expected civility on such an occasion. Still, Lee can be forgiven almost any such questionable twists of plot because...