Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Among sufferers, there is a feeling that women are more moral and honest than men about confessing to the disease. Says Fran Simon, a p.r. woman for a Philadelphia hospital: "I sure as hell wouldn't want it on my conscience, passing the disease on to somebody." But a quick admission amounts to a warning bell that scares off potential mates. "It was a dilemma every time I met someone new," says a Miami architect. "I used to rehearse telling people before a mirror." The architect is now happily married, though he has passed the disease on to his wife...
Despite their public declarations of loyalty, most Iranian military commanders are said to be critical of the ruling clergy's tendency to use human-wave attacks to achieve quick victories. These commanders believe that Iran should try to wear down the enemy more slowly without wasting men and resources. Through further attacks, they reason, they could weaken the Iraqis' morale and gradually expand the size of the Basra front, which at present is only ten miles wide. The Ayatullah reportedly rejects such talk out of hand. Complains a former military official in Tehran: "Khomeini and his aides think...
...version of Martin Luther's 95 these (e.g. "Capitalism is good for the Jews," and "The poor of America are wretches without dignity"). His book will never convince anyone who doesn't already agree with him. Despite his rather arrogant dismissal of the neoconservative theory. Shorris consents to a quick and impressionistic history of the social changes which he says pushed Podhoretz and Co. from the Left into their current positions as "court Jews" for the Reagan Administration...
...Look quick! That Botticelli Venus is Aunt Marge...
...ball and hit home runs. Adjusting, always adjusting. When I told him Dave Stapleton was going to be my first baseman this year, and he and Tony would DH, he already had started to adjust before the conversation was over. What amazes me is his fast hands yet, his quick reactions still...