Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Democratic Candidate Walter Mondale is quick to raise this specter. "Don't let Mr. Reagan get his hands on the Supreme Court!" he shouted at the N.A.A.C.P. convention. Appearing at George Washington University last week, Mondale declared, "This election is not about Republicans sending hecklers to my rallies. It is about Jerry Falwell picking Justices for the Supreme Court." (The Fundamentalist preacher had earlier boasted that "we" will get three to five high court appointments.) The line drew a prolonged standing ovation for Mondale and a "We want Fritz" chant from the students. But the Democratic candidate usually makes...
...brokering a mutual troop withdrawal from Lebanon. Israeli officials also indicated for the first time that they might agree to bring their forces home without waiting for Syria to pull its 40,000 troops out of northern and eastern Lebanon. Nonetheless, U.S. officials in Washington cautioned against expecting quick results from the Murphy shuttle...
...other two-thirds may not be so quick to join the expanded schedule. Some early-childhood specialists are skeptical of the proposed benefits. Louise Bates Ames, co-founder of the Gesell Institute of Child Development in New Haven, Conn., says that most five-year-olds are physically unready for a full-day program. "It's a sheer matter of fatigue," she contends. "Emotionally they aren't ready either. Five is a 'close-to-home' age, when they like to be with their mothers...
...idea of quick fix diplomacy at the top is an illusion," Pipes added...
...quick scene and costume change later, and we're in Wooster's rather flat flat--yes, more cardboard, I'm afraid. Duke as Wooster narrates the historical encounter between himself and Jeeves, who is also himself, that is to say, Edward Duke. Rather confusing, but it's all clear when you see it since Duke shifts between Wooster and Jeeves like Warren Beatty on a double date...