Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trying to pull their money out. We are writing the book on how it's done on this one." As the talks wore on, members were in almost constant tele phone contact with Mexico's Finance Secretary Jesús Silva Herzog. During breaks, the financiers grabbed quick meals at a nearby 24-hour restaurant...
...praise it as worthy; it is far more than that, even though there are nights when foreign accents become too thick, or economists drone too long over their hedgings. There is now an imitator in ABC's late-night Nightline with Ted Koppel; he is well-briefed and quick-witted, but it isn't in him to be as self-effacing as MacNeil or Lehrer...
When Elden was a boy, Bryant Pond boasted a dozen stores: a butcher's shop, a grain store, a milliner, a harness shop with cobbler's trade on the side. There was Chase's Variety. There was Cole's Hardware ("Quick sales and small profits," the proprietors used to say). An opera house, burned in 1928, was the pride of the town. An ice cream parlor and pool hall did business in the basement. Silent films with piano accompaniment were regularly featured. Young Elden popped the corn and hawked his products to customers at a nickel...
...next month or even next week hardly mattered to weary traders who were relishing the greatest five days in Wall Street history. On a typical Friday afternoon in August, almost all the brokers would have made a quick getaway for the weekend. Last Friday evening, though, the bar of Harry's at Hanover Square, a favorite Street hangout, was jammed with revelers. Said William LeFevre, market strategist for the Purcell Graham & Co. investment firm: "We saw things in the market this week that we never thought would happen." It was a rally to remember, and savor, for a long...
...brick home of Howard and Joan Kipp, in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn. The package was addressed to Joan, 54, a supervisor of guidance counselors in New York City's public schools. Standing in her kitchen, Mrs. Kipp tore off the brown wrapping paper and found the Quick and Delicious Gourmet Cookbook. She opened the cover. Suddenly there was a flash, and two .22-cal. bullets tore into her chest. Kipp came running into the room and discovered his bleeding wife on the floor, gasping, "A bomb! A bomb!" Three hours later, she was dead...