Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...laxmen ran the score up to 5-1 with four quick tallies against a listless Dartmouth defense...
...Fisk workshops emphasized voluntarist remedies, such as black church programs and promoting home ownership among working-class blacks. They also urged a "domestic Marshall Plan," as well as wage and price controls. Although the black family's problems do not seem soluble by quick fixes, there are a few heartening signs. Among black teenagers, the birth rate has declined slightly; more effective access to contraception could accelerate that trend. Some recent research has found that the "culture of poverty" is escapable. According to one University of Michigan study, most children from poor families do not become impoverished adults...
...Helms letter drew quick rebuttals from the White House and congressional leaders. Asserting that Ronald Reagan had "full confidence" in Pickering, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes contended that the Administration had not taken sides in the runoff election between Christian Democrat José Napoleón Duarte and ARENA'S Roberto d'Aubuisson. But in a speech on the Senate floor, Helms expanded his attack, contending that the State Department "bent over backwards to facilitate a Duarte victory" and that a member of the U.S. embassy staff in San Salvador told ARENA officials the U.S. would not support...
...making the quick succession of monologues from three of her movies look easy. She tells the audience that she has always worked from the outside in, discovering how a character dresses and moves and only then who the character is. But in In the Movies, the plaintive song that threads together the scenes, she admits, "The part that you're playing won't leave you alone...
Other records consoled the Harvard squad as well. Busby set a new school best by winning the 400 meters in 56.54 seconds; Pattarson handled 100 meters in a swift 14.17 seconds; Moore dashed 100 meters in a quick 12.18 seconds; and Kathleen Durante's 132-foot discus throw found its way into the record books...