Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...troubled community also seeks scapegoats, and the adoring crowds who initially put Zelig on a pedestal were just as quick to grind him into the earth. Though cured of his disease, many of the side effects lingered and came back to haunt him, including the countless women he married while pretending to be different men, the operations he performed while pretending to be a doctor, until finally he became the victim of a moral majority-type crusade...
...capture was quick and dirty, so Jaffe claims. He was returning to his condominium from an afternoon jog when he was lured into a car, handcuffed and then taken south to the U.S. border at Niagara Falls. "This is a gotcha," Johnsen allegedly told Jaffe, who contends that the bounty hunters beat him. Local police, alerted by Jaffe's daughter, refused to intervene when he appealed to them at the Niagara Falls International Airport. Kear and Johnsen took him aboard a chartered jet waiting to fly to Florida...
...patience. Unfortunately, that very quality has been missing in American foreign policy. Impatience is the dark side of a whole cluster of Yankee virtues. Confronted with intractable, ambiguous challenges in other lands, America's cando, problem-solving, troubleshooting instincts twitch in an often misguided quest for the quick fix. Got a problem? Send in a military governor or a proconsul or a special envoy. Still got a problem? Send money. Still got a problem? Send in the Rough Riders, or the Marines. For nearly a century, that has been the standard American response to troubles down south...
...reason for the current deepening doubt about U.S. policy is the impression conveyed by the Administration that it is again getting itchy for a military quick fix. But any military action that would be quick would not be, almost by definition, a true fix, and might well end up being the opposite. Sending in U.S. combat forces would surely wreak political havoc at home before it could prove decisive against the guerrillas in El Salvador. As for Nicaragua, a full-scale U.S.-supported invasion by the contras and the Honduran armed forces might drive the Sandinistas back into the countryside...
...reaction to solution-mongering from the right, liberals argue that what the U.S. really needs is a quick fix of its own attitude: If only we were more willing to accept "change," more self-critical of our own past sins in the region, less hung up on Communism-if only we could bring ourselves to live with the Sandinistas and encourage a "dialogue'' between guerrillas and government in El Salvador. Yes, we would have more leftists running countries in the hemisphere, but those countries are too weak, too poor, too desperate for our help to become genuine Soviet...