Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carter provided Zaïre with fuel, medicine and equipment to crush a rebellion-cum-invasion there. It was the Carter Administration that promised to send an Army battalion to the Sinai peninsula to separate Israeli and Egyptian forces and encouraged the creation of a Rapid Deployment Force for quick dispatch to a possible Middle East skirmish; Reagan has simply executed those plans. Carter also resumed "nonlethal" military aid to El Salvador almost a year before Reagan took office, and approved an emergency shipment of arms to that country in the last days of his Administration...
Nicaraguan officials were quick to claim that the contras had been responsible for similar massacres of civilians in the past. But one of Blandón's friends had a different explanation. According to him, the Sandinista soldier had opened fire as soon as he saw the contras approaching, thereby provoking the savage reprisal...
...normally fixed in a day were going untended for as long as four days. Troubleshooting managers swapped suits and ties for work shirts and blue jeans as they clambered up telephone poles and crawled into manholes. Many had never done repair work before; armed with diagrams, they got a quick, on-the-scene education. In San Francisco, two supervisors for Pacific Telephone embarked on a fairly routine repair of a neighborhood box of circuits at 6 p.m. and did not make it back to their office until 4 a.m. Said Eileen Short, Pacific Telephone's maintenance manager: "Sometimes...
...last March launched a weather satellite carrying a search-and-rescue, or SARSAT, system. The satellite, working in a rare cooperative venture with two Soviet SARSATS, automatically picked up distress signals from downed aircraft and foundering ships and relayed them back to earth. The SOSs gave searchers quick navigational fixes so that help could be sent promptly to the accident sites. Rescue agencies are now discovering that there can be too much of a good thing: false alarms are flooding the SARSAT system...
...Parkinson's disease; in New York City. A public relations executive who invented Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Leo the Lion trademark and is said to have coined Greta Garbo's line "I want to be alone," Dietz was amazingly prolific (more than 500 songs) and quick, whipping up That's Entertainment in 30 minutes with his longtime collaborator Arthur Schwartz. One of show business's genuine Renaissance men, Dietz translated the librettos of La Bohème and Die Fledermaus into English for the Metropolitan Opera, dabbled in oil painting, and devised a two-handed...