Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Blair may get a chance to earn his living with a quick glove and rapid reflexes, he'll have a stick, not a bat in his hand. He'll be wearing a flashy Calgary Flames jersey, not demure Yankee pinstripes. And he'll be towing...
...Quick passage of the bill without weakening ammendments should be an urgent priority for Congress. It will only be making up lost ground, but at least the new law will stop making it easy for the Reagan Administration to continue weakening the nation's civil rights protections...
...spectacular scandalsheet: The towing log. Within two hours there had been three extortions committed by John Harvard and his accomplice at 67 Winthrop Street, and 90 percent of Phil's pickups occurred on that very road. At fifty bucks per whack, some one or ones are getting rich mighty quick...
...many to so few." Winston Churchill paid that celebrated tribute to the Royal Air Force fighter pilots who won the 48-day Battle of Britain in 1940, thus thwarting plans for a Nazi invasion of England. The backbone of the R.A.F. was the agile Spitfire, the speedy (364 m.p.h.), quick-turning, British-built fighter plane that literally flew circles around enemy aircraft...
...border agreement follows the election last month of Costa Rican President-elect Oscar Arias Sanchez. Shortly after his victory, the feuding neighbors resumed relations and exchanged new ambassadors. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra was quick to portray the accord as evidence of his country's desire for peace in the region. The Reagan Administration, which last week asked Congress for an additional $100 million in aid for the contras, was unimpressed. Said a State Department spokesman: "It's nice they're having these bilateral accords, but they can't take the place of a regional, verifiable settlement...