Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This quick turnabout of fortunes can be traced in large part to injuries, leaves of absences and illnesses--a number of thinclads computed last season while suffering from a bronchial virus...
Liberal interpreters of the Bible are quick to take as literal those admonitions that please them, such as beating plowshares into pruning hooks and peace on earth. But these same individuals are equally quick to label as allegory and symbolism all they do not wish to face, like Armageddon and Judgment...
...ability to debate is not necessarily the sign of an effective leader. In fact, debates are often won by the candidate most skilled in the quick sidestep and the artful dodge. A leader must take time and have some solitude before engaging his mouth. Robert Brundin Torrance, Calif...
...Stephen Marris, warn that the Reagan Administration should be worried about a precipitous fall in the value of the dollar. In a world of freely floating exchange rates, the dollar could drop just as far during the second Reagan term as it rose in the first. A sharp and quick fall in the dollar would cause U.S. inflation to shoot up because the cost of imports would rise...
According to records of the California department of fish and game, over the past 30-odd years there have never been so many shark assaults off the U.S. in such quick succession. Between 1950 and 1955, sharks attacked a total of three people in the U.S. Pacific; in the past four years that number has quadrupled. The center of the danger area runs from Monterey Bay to Point Reyes, Calif. This 90mile stretch of coastline together with the Farallon Islands to the west forms a perilous wedge now called the Red Triangle. John McCosker, director of the Steinhart Aquarium...