Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ronald Reagan was wearing a dark blue suit with a white handkerchief deftly planted in his breast pocket-the standard uniform of many a presidential tour. But he was also wearing a pair of rubber rain boots, hastily borrowed from a local farmer named Greg Miller. The occasion: a quick stop in Fort Wayne, Ind., where for a few minutes last week the President joined a crew of flood-control workers in passing sandbags to be stacked along the muddy banks of the swollen St. Mary's River...
...Brutus is quick to point out, his scholarly accomplishments have often been over-shadowed by his exhaustive political activism. In fact, his political outspokenness against-apartheid may have been partly responsible for his current conflict with the immigration service...
...first night in the city where Oscar Mayer never wished to be, my faithful companion--Lloyd Perlmutter, the student Sports Information Assistant and the voice of Bright Center--and I climbed into a Badger cab (after a quick perusal of the cab companies in the phone book, we had decided we would ride on the Badger's back or we would walk...
Guatemala. Interviewed by TIME shortly after last week's stormy election. General Guevara said he planned to offer an amnesty to the guerrillas who have been fighting the government for years. But he was quick to add: "Those who do not accept will be battled against with all the resources of the state." Those tough words did not hold out much hope for a speedy end to the fighting that has been escalating on both sides since...
...against him is more scrupulous and substantive. The most shocking charge in 1969-that he was "smiling and dancing" with glee at the prospect of performing the historic autopsy on Robert Kennedy-was never corroborated. The county board muzzled him in January because it thought he had been too quick to speculate about the murky circumstances surrounding the deaths of Natalie Wood and William Holden...