Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest political maneuvers in the Middle East, the shrewd survivor who runs the Palestine Liberation Organization jetted from South Yemen to North Yemen to Sweden and then to Tunisia, supposedly to attend a high-level P.L.O. policy meeting. But soon after arriving in Tunis, he left for a quick trip to Bulgaria, finally returning to Tunisia. Amid all this frenetic travel, whose purpose only the P.L.O. chairman himself could fathom, Arafat studiously managed to avoid going back to Jordan, where he had been engaged in intense discussions with King Hussein a week earlier. By not doing so, he dealt...
...Crimson enters the two-day tournament with a 6-2 record. While perceived front runners Princeton (5-10) and Brown (7-7) have posted records no better than .500, Harvard Coach John Wentzell is quick to point out that this is no indication of how the team will...
Committing several crucial mental errors, the uninspired Harvard squad allowed the smaller and slower Bruin squad to jump out to a quick lead yesterday, and then swapped goals with Brown to fight to a 5-5 halftime tie. But the laxwomen shook off their lethargy in time to explode for nine unanswered goals in the game's final 20 minutes...
...finely tuned to admit this sort of flaw blithely; by nature a vivid personality. She must and does go to great lengths to avoid trite melodrama. The words she utters at the end of the play are too cliched to be the credible product of the Maria whose quick intellect has stunned us in earlier dialogues: "We're serious people. I am much more serious, much more real for having accepted my Gypsy root...
...distasteful to think that this money is nothing more than a sort of casual pacifier tossed to the Ferrises by HCA; Andrea's erased future cannot be quantified into dollars and cents. Although the settlement probably does not represent anything so consciously insensitive, people in this country are too quick to sue. Yelling for large sums of money has become the accepted way of resolving disagreements and solving problems--burying them in a mountain of dollar bills...