Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Opposition to the new law was sharp and quick. "Patently unconstitutional," declared Paul Hubbert, executive director of the Alabama Educational Association. Earl Potts of the Alabama Baptist Convention objected on different grounds. Said he: "We need prayer in the public schools, but I don't think the government should provide the prayer to be used. What legislators are not realizing is that the government could become more involved in prescribing what its citizens should be doing...
Iran's plan to attack Iraq, with Soviet acquiescence, was in the formative stages when the Israelis launched their invasion of Lebanon. The Israelis gambled that with a quick strike at their northern neighbor's heartland, they could impose a solution of sorts on their 34-year-old conflict with the Palestinian Arabs. They bought Defense Minister Ariel Sharon's argument that such an assault could free northern Israel from occasional P.L.O. attacks, break the organization's leadership and perhaps even create pressure on the Palestinians to make Jordan their homeland. If Syria attacked Israel's invasion force, so much...
Dieters face an FDA ban on the latest get-thin-quick pills...
Consider the problem. You have half a bottle of pills that the Food and Drug Administration has just banned because of inadequate knowledge of side effects. What do you do? Last week the answer from many American dieters hooked on the latest get-thin-quick scheme was to rush out and buy lots more bottles of starch blockers before they vanish from health and drugstore shelves...
...Janus-faced samaritanism and also takes on the dilemmas of pride versus resignation, of profit and progress versus human interest. If played straight, this show could be rather sanctimonious. The speeches about lives based on lies are heavy handed even in Cantor's production, but the superb cast and quick pace play up Pillars farcical aspects. Props such as loud ties, when sacal scenery and an office suspended in mid air, beguile the audience...