Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While I sipped the coffee, I jotted down a quick outline for that morning's lecture... The outline came easily enough. When pressed for time, I always resorted to the People magazine formula for lecturing-lots of authorial anecdotes, heavy on the bitter pill of knowledge. After a few minutes. I slipped the notepad-back into my pocked and checked my watch. I still had time for the sports page...
...quick glance through the CRR's history reveals tales of gross incompetence and paranoia: a freshman suspended after she was misidentified in a photograph of a demonstration, a student disciplined even though he never received notification of his hearing, action taken against five students because the University did not bother to identify the other 30 to 40 involved...
...considered lacking in intellectual brilliance, but he was quick- minded and receptive to other people's ideas. The result, with a little help from his social connections, was an unending series of promotions. There was never a way to treat Dickie Mountbatten as if he were just another lieutenant. He had money of his own, and he had married the beautiful and exceedingly wealthy Edwina Ashley. It was a stormy union, marked by his many affairs and her infatuations, including one with Jawaharlal Nehru, but it lasted until Edwina's death in 1960. Stationed in Malta in the late...
...Joyce Randolph). Unlike most other sitcom couples of the '50s, the Honeymooners were not middle class, but the working poor. Ralph earned $62 a week driving a bus; Norton worked, as he liked to say, as an engineer of subterranean sanitation--in the sewer system. Though Alice's quick mind would have enabled her to run Ralph's bus line, or NBC for that matter, she was a housewife: in those prefeminist days, Ralph did not want his wife to take...
...speeded-up exchange of goods and services, that it might need to shake off the effects of a slowdown in U.S. industrial expansion. A more political, and more pressing, purpose was to give Free Trader Reagan ammunition to use against protectionists at home who want to limit imports. A quick start on tearing down trade barriers would enable the President to hold out hope that the U.S. could reduce its debilitating trade deficit by increasing exports instead...