Word: quicked
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Perhaps the most remarkable of all the New Dealers was Harry L. Hopkins, a gangling and often brusque idealist who, in the words of one acquaintance, gave off "a suggestion of quick cigarettes, thinning hair, dandruff, brief sarcasm, fraying suits of clothes, and a wholly understandable preoccupation." Born to poverty as the son of an Iowa harnessmaker, Hopkins had worked one summer among the slum children of New York City's Lower East Side, and that experience turned him into a professional social worker. When the Crash came, Governor Roosevelt made Hopkins head of New York's emergency...
...October 1933, couldn't the Federal Government simply hire the unemployed for the winter at all kinds of part-time jobs that needed doing, such as repairing roads or teaching the illiterate or simply raking leaves? How many jobs would be feasible, asked the President. Hopkins made a quick guess: 4 million. "Let's see," said Roosevelt, "4 million people-that means roughly $400 million. I guess we could take that out of the public works fund and not have to ask Congress...
...mockery of the competitive procurement process," and hinted at a legal challenge. The company further claimed that selection of Lockheed's existing plane, after Lockheed lost the competitive bidding for the project, "is simply contrary to the Government's own established procurement practices." McDonnell Douglas spokesmen were quick to recall the troubled history of the plane, which was burdened by developmental cost overruns of $2 billion, plus another $1.3 billion for replacement of the plane's overstressed wings...
...long way from his old terrain of kitchen sinks (A Taste of Honey) and drawing rooms (Tom Jones). He allows a few implausibilities and submits the viewer to one winsome muchacho too many. But this is still a successful invasion of Peckinpah County, where bogus high life and a quick ugly death too often intersect. The film's mercuric feeling is heightened by Ric Waite's supple zooms, pans and tracking shots, and by the whining chords of Ry Cooder's music. As for Nicholson, he shows again that he can embody as much of the 20th...
...institution in Rock Island, Ill., "little-known Augustana College" (in footballese, adjective and noun are welded together, as in "wartorn Middle East"). Also little known is the general opinion that if N.F.L. computers were programmed to construct the ideal quarterback, they would spit out Kenny Anderson. He is strong, quick (4.8 sec. over 40 yds.), with outstanding peripheral vision and, at 6 ft. 3 in., tall enough to throw over the modern hyperthyroid lineman. Unlike other strong-armed quarterbacks, the Jets' Richard Todd, for instance, Anderson throws passes that are mysteriously hard to drop. They float down so softly...