Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Solidarity, the disbanded independent trade union. At a midnight press conference, jubilant government officials projected the total turnout at 75% of Poland's 26 million eligible voters. The regime had viewed the elections as a referendum on the leadership of Premier General Wojciech Jaruzelski, and he was quick to interpret the high turnout as proof that "the great majority of society" backed the government...
...about bad. "After 30 years of marriage, I felt like a truss in a drugstore window." You think that's-overstated? Let me tell you what it's like to be a working mother, "racing around the kitchen in a pair of bedroom slippers, trying to quick-thaw a chop under each armpit . . ." Shared responsibilities? "Transporting children is my husband's 26th favorite thing; it comes somewhere between eating lunch in a tearoom and dropping a bowling ball on his foot." Listen, let me tell...
Trench warfare of this kind is waged not against men and kids, but against loneliness and self-pity. The quick, hit-'em-again-with-another-joke style fits the desperate nature of the combat. The young mother who reads it may have a degree in psychology from Michigan State, but as she cleans up after the puppy while trying to separate two children who are fighting over a linty piece of bubble gum, she may not be in the mood for compound-complex sentences. She may smile over a column by Art Buchwald, the master of the discovered absurdity...
...rate acceptably trim at 5 ft. 2 in. and 127 Ibs. Is it a surprise that her daughter Betsy, 30, and her sons Andrew, 28, and Matthew, 25, have lost their baby teeth? And that her husband is not a football-stupefied turnip but rather an articulate, quick-minded fellow? Bill Bombeck retired in 1978 after a successful career as a school administrator, and now manages their income of $500,000 to $1 million a year. He is more likely to be found jogging than watching the tube, and four years ago he ran the Boston Marathon in the creditable...
...Quick. Catch him now, before he gets elected...