Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...April Fool, Day, replete with khaki fatigues, mock rifles, and cardboard tanks. After an hour of make-belive firing squad executions of "communist sympathizers," the play freedom fighters proclaimed victory from the steps of City Hall and declared Rhode Island's capital under martial law. The phony Contras were quick to agree with President's description of their Yankee forebears: shouted one "guerrilla" on the prowl for suspected communists, "we're not terrorists, we're fighting for democracy." Brown Daily Herala...
...they clearly mean something like a World War II-style triumph ending with unconditional surrender. One lesson of Viet Nam, observes George Christian, who was L.B.J.'s press secretary, is that "it is very tough for Americans to stick in long situations. We are always looking for a quick fix." But nuclear missiles make the unconditional-surrender kind of war an anachronism. Viet Nam raised, and left unsolved for the next conflict, the question posed by Lincoln Bloomfield, an M.I.T. professor of political science who once served on Jimmy Carter's National Security Council: "How is it that...
...appropriate moment. In her lecture "Living with Beautiful Things," she discusses collections of great art, then decides, "By contrast to the ear, the eye is a jealous, concupiscent organ, and some idea of ownership or exclusion enters into our relation with visual beauty." From there it is a quick step to the conclusion, "Quite poisonous people, on the whole, are attracted by the visual arts and can become very knowledgeable about them. This is much less true of literature . . . A bookish man will be an omnivorous reader, obviously, but he will not be greedy: by consuming more reading matter than...
...Clare recognized him at once. Everyone at school recognized him. Once when Clare dropped her wallet while she was trying to open her locker, he'd leaned down and picked it up... "You dropped your wallet," he said. She was too flustered to say thank you. She managed a quick nod of her head and he disappeared down the hall. For weeks afterward, the sight of him made her tremble. She learned his schedule and looked forward to the few minutes between classes when their paths crossed. She watched when their paths crossed. She watched him in the cafeteria...
Harvard was physically out matched by a strong UMass squad and had to fight a powerful attack throughout the game The Crimson defense did an excellent job of staying off the Minutemen, but finally succumbed to two quick goals midway through the first half...