Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Everything was quick and outside the 18 [yard marker]," Salisbury said. "We had never faced something like this before. We are used to giving [opponents] room in front and then containing them...
...pollution-control management program was reduced from three people to one. Says Paul O'Brien, who ran the program until one month before the spill: "There weren't enough resources to do the job right. I was stretched pretty thin." After the accident, environment commissioner Kelso was quick to brand the industry's previously filed oil-spill contingency plan "the greatest piece of maritime fiction since Moby Dick." But he had approved the document...
After eight months in his mahogany-paneled office overlooking the Lincoln Memorial, First Friend Baker is not even running foreign policy -- the President handles that. After a rocky start in a new field, the legendary political operative is still taking lumps from critics who argue he is quick to cut a deal, such as the bipartisan accord on Nicaragua, but slow to present a consistent strategy for critical areas like Eastern Europe and the Middle East...
...chummy basketball guy with the big schnozz and the quick wit? The coaching success story who plays by the rules--and actually cares about his players as human beings? Kind of a Tommy Lasorda without the waistline...
...Wildcat pounced on the bouncing prize, and her shot dribbled towards the far corner of the open goal. But Reilly was too quick, swiping the ball out of bounds just before it broke the plane of the goal...