Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought--King Specials! Scram, scum," he cries after a quick examination of the jockeys. With a swift kick in the shins he rolls the fop across the cobblestone lane, secure in the feeling of a job well done...
...ever more perverse ways. Women will use the new class markers to find themselves suitable mates and lovers. For instance, in "fast" cultural sub-groups we might expect to find men sidling up to women at bars and, instead of buying them drinks and flashing large billfolds, performing quick pirouettes followed by a hiking of the shirt, a dropping of the trousers, and a flashing of the underwear label. In more traditional groups this kind of behavior may be shunned in public, but in such situations analogous behavior will occur in private...
...that a hand rose from a sea of smiling faces in St. Peter's Square and fired several shots at Pope John Paul II. After a quick trial by Italian authorities, Mehmet Ali Agca, 23, a self-described "international terrorist," disappeared behind bars to serve a life sentence, leaving a stream of questions unanswered: Who was he? Why had he done it? Had he acted alone or on someone else's orders? In an hourlong special report that will be broadcast this week, an NBC News team headed by Correspondent Marvin Kalb follows the trail of suspicion...
THIRD: The President wisely took his time in choosing a course of action. A quick decision would certainly have been less carefully designed and could well have produced a much higher risk of catastrophe. The fact that the crisis did not become public in its first week obviously made it easier for President Kennedy to consider his options with a maximum of care and a minimum of outside pressure. Not every future crisis will be so quiet in its first phase, but Americans should always respect the need for a period of confidential and careful deliberation in dealing with...
Though the Crimson didn't find the end zone again before halftime, the two quick scoring drives seemed to deflate the Minutemen. Despite the fact that UMass cut Harvard's lead to 17-14 with 10:15 left in the game, the only real suspense of the second half resulted from Allard's surge to the record...