Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the most crucial error came early in the second half, when the Harvard defense allowed UMass to post three quick goals. A one-goal UMass halftime lead had become a 6-2 lead just five minutes into the final period...
...Crimson was able to keep up with, if not nullify, a Panther offense characterized by disguising hitters and quick low sets. But it was the Panthers' stronger serving down the stretch that did the Crimson in. "Serving was our weakest point," Crimson Coach Ihsan Gurdal said. "We could keep up with them until 9-9 or 10-10, but each time their serves made the difference...
...first step-no doubt a politically painful one for Reagan-would be to set his fanciful wish list for START aside and begin negotiating, and ratifying, a quick fix of the SALT II treaty. A mounting chorus, including the voices of moderate Republicans as well as the more predictable Democrats, is trying to persuade the President of the absurdity of leaving the treaty in limbo while trying to enforce its terms in cases of questionable Soviet activity...
...Mondale certainly has presidential looks. He is an attractive, boyish-looking man, with a beaked nose, a nasal-baritone voice, and graying, sandy hair. He has an easy, likable manner and a quick wit he often turns on himself. His self-deprecation springs from his country roots in Minnesota. His father was a Methodist minister of Norwegian background who spoke with both a strong accent and a stutter. To augment his $1,800-a-year church salary, he sold corn and cabbages out of his garden. His mother Claribel helped out by giving piano lessons. Fritz, as he was called...
There comes a moment in life, perhaps more than one, when it is possible to detect a subtle understanding, a mystifying clarity of awareness. More often than not it vanishes as quickly as it appears. But during it one senses the interconnectedness of things, the flow and pulse of the collective subconscious--what in another age was called the "quick" of life. A transcendent moment like this reveals the order or chaos behind life; it generally makes one feel inconsequential, a minute speck in the cosmic scheme. This essentially romantic notion was perhaps best delineated by Emerson in his famous...