Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PROPOSAL ELICITED a flurry of response from military planners and civilian observers, including a quick "no way" from the Secretary of Defense Alexander M. Haig. Though McNamera, in particular, has been trying to keep the issue alive, it has faltered from lack of attention from the Administration and, surprisingly, from the opposition Democrats...
...Crimson had just won one of its last seven ECAC games, and second-place Yale was on deck. Harvard needed a quick confidence-builder, and Dartmouth seemed only too pleased to oblige. The result: a 4-0 victory that lifted the icemen's ECAC record to 6-7-1 (6-9-1 overall...
...sharpen his skills in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, where he scored 104 goals to break records set by Islander Mike Bossy and Montreal Canadien Guy Lafleur. The U.S. Olympic chief assistant coach, Tim Taylor of Yale, praises LaFontaine's See-ing-Eye hands: "He has a quick stick and a fast release with no waste motion...
Koppel is even renowned among colleagues for quick humor and dead-on impersonations of Gary Grant, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger...
...idea for Noises occurred to Frayn, 50, a well-known British farceur and satirist, one night in 1970 as he stood in the wings of a London theater watching a performance of a quick-change, arms-flapping farce he had written for Lynn Redgrave and Richard Briers. "It was funnier from behind than in front," recalls Frayn, "and I thought, 'One day I must write a farce from behind...