Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slide presentation did provide unmistakable evidence of a military buildup that Nicaragua's leaders have hitherto minimized. Nonetheless, Sandinista leaders were quick to dispute many of the charges. "There is not a single foreign soldier in Nicaragua," insisted Sergio Ramirez, a member of the country's three-man ruling junta. "How could we hide 2,000 Cuban soldiers in a country this size?" Agriculture Minister Jaime Wheelock, who was in the U.S. for his own publicity offensive, called the Hughes briefing, a bit redundantly, a case of "excessive hysteria"; he noted that the airport expansion program was actually...
...fact, he has reportedly read it faithfully since the early '60s, says The Washington Post. And some of the people around him must see it as well, because every Friday, the Postreports, 24 copies of the latest issue are delivered to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. In Washington, a town of quick "ins" and "outs," this new journal is definitely "in" for the present administration...
Some believe the election quick raises questions about the legitimacy of the mandate given to the new Undergraduate Council, and say the vote could hamper the group's initial effectiveness Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III said yesterday resentment on the part of some students who had voted "no" could carry over to next fall when the new government's first elections will take place...
...romantic couple's incompatibility appears to be more his fault than hers. Mouis is a fine, precise dancer with exquisite balance and an engaging flair for comedic flirtation. Her Kitri-Dulcinea is a model of girlish exuberance and mischief, quick in her pirouettes and unquiveringly exact in her arabesques...
...Queen of the Dryads in the Act II dream sequence, Laura Young (who alternates the role with Mouis) has a lovely, lyrical style and a great deal of fluid grace. Stephanie Moy, as the dream sprite Amour, delivers a quick, pert performance characterized by rapid-fire precision. The two male principals, Matador Augustus Van-Heerden and Gypsy Boy Tony Catanzero, both exhibit crystalline definition and punctilious accuracy. As Don Quixote, Donn Edwards is appropriately clumsy, bumblingly gallant, dedicated to the service of his imagined Dulcinea...