Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Professor Thomas Piper, chairman of the Committee, was quick to play down the career orientation of the proposed modules and stressed the academic aspect of the new courses...
...faculty passed the proposals, which were unanimously recommended by a student-faculty committee on March 17. The reforms lower course load requirements from 11 to ten and a half classes with students take-the Committee, was quick to play down the in the spring...
...have also been fixed so that Nut would have been left stranded on the deserted road at the mercy of a killer masquerading as a helpful passerby. It was equally possible that Nut might have left the motor running while he jumped out of his car to make a quick, and fatal, rendezvous...
French, British and U.S. intelligence sources were quick to dismiss the possibility of any link between the French crackdown and expulsions elsewhere in Western Europe. French officials pointed out that the expelled Soviets had been under investigation long before Kuzichkin came in from the cold. Another hypothesis to help explain Mitterrand's move was the unresolved murder in mid-February of Lieut. Colonel Bernard Nut, a top French agent, although officials in Paris insisted that the incident was not "decisive" (see box). Analysts also rejected the theory that Mitterrand had been angered by the arrest a week earlier...
...produced skyrocketing bills for alimony and child support. He sold off parts of his Brooklyn Heights brownstone, gradually marooning himself on its spacious fourth floor. A house in Provincetown, Mass., was sold at an Internal Revenue Service auction. He interrupted his work on Ancient Evenings to write books for quick money. One paid an unexpected dividend: The Executioner's Song, his account of the life and death of Gary Gilmore, won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for fiction...