Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...them up is so severe that New York Deputy Police Chief Francis Hall contends that "we have to stop thinking of traditional prisons. We can house literally thousands in barracks-type facilities." Even if that were done, prosecutors complain that a drastic shortage of judges would still result in quick release of drug pushers. Under New York State law, a defendant charged with a misdemeanor, as most drug sellers are, must be brought to trial within 90 days of arrest. Consequently, drug dealers demand jury trials, knowing no judges will be available to conduct them within the permitted time. Overworked...
...Experts point to other deep-seated causes that produce a continued national craving for drugs: lack of community, disintegration of the family, moral laxity, the relentless pressure to perform in a fast-paced society. "The real remedies to the problem don't satisfy Americans' urge for a quick fix," says Ted Galen Carpenter of the CATO Institute, a Washington think tank. "It's a long, laborious process." Merely preaching about the evils of dope is no more likely to purify the school- yard than a Sunday sermon about fallen women is likely to make the congregation chaste. Actually, moralizing often...
Once they were hippies; now they are yuppies. Twenty-five years ago, they might have prowled Bleecker Street looking for Woody Allen or Bob Dylan or a quick fix of transcendence. Now they are back in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in search of an easy key to their past. Most of the crowd filing into the Top of the Village Gate is early middle-aged, with a sprinkling of children. The occasion could be parents' night at a progressive school. Instead it is a rite of commercial nostalgia: Beehive, two hours of songs from girl singers and girl groups...
...Pusey called in the police, an action which will linger in his memory for the rest of his years. "Although it was going to be painful and very, very difficult and there were going to be many unhappy people, the thing to do was cut it off quick and then for about a week there would be a terrible explosion. But that would be the end of it, and that's what happened...
...years after World War II were ones of deep change. "These demonstrations were just a symptom of the fact that there was a very quick turning of the tide," he says...