Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...QUICK: WHO WEARS double-breasted suits, does honors work in economics and chemistry, is going to Harvard Law next year, and manages to erect gulags in the Yard in his spare time...
...representatives were selected under the vague criteria of what Stephenson calls "strongest affiliation with Harvard." David Sanders, the 350th spokesman, is quick to point out that this affiliation with Harvard is a "close association in any capacity" and does not necessarily require donating large sums of money. Soliciting on behalf of the College, organizing reunions, and serving on oversight committees are some of the service criteria...
...STARTED AROUND Christmas 1979, when Sunny, heiress to the Columbia Gas and Electric fortune, fell into a coma. According to Schrallhammer's account, von Bulow ignored Sunny's poor condition for several hours until Schrallhammer convinced him to call a doctor. Some quick action by the doctor saved Sunny, and life went on as usual...
...runs, as he likes to put it, "the greatest state in the greatest nation in the only world we know," Cuomo believes that his mission is to meld old-fashioned compassion with fiscal common sense. In jest, he calls himself the founder of the Progressive Pragmatist Party. He is quick, however, to trumpet what would be its platform: a kind of frugal liberalism, conservatism with a human face. If this self-described progressive pragmatist can act as mediator between the Democratic Party's left wing, including Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition, and the assertive right, symbolized by the Democratic Leadership...
...easily. He boils over. He blurts things out. During the 1985 debate over the New York seat-belt law, he derided the bill's opponents as "NRA hunters who drink beer, don't vote and lie to their wives about where they were all weekend." He is almost too quick, too facile, for his own good. Last year when he got into what reporters called an argument but he preferred to term a Socratic dialogue on the subject of organized crime, Cuomo said, "You're telling me that Mafia is an organization, and I'm telling you that...