Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state law, the booze has to stop flowing at 2. It does, and Fitch calls it a night. But the White Animals continue, and so do the revelers. At 4 a.m., the remaining stalwarts head off to various homes for a nightcap. For Mimi, it has been a "very quick fairy tale." She has even less time to savor it. At 11:30, there will be a luncheon in her honor...
Gaddafi's most predictable trait is bis unpredictability. "It's almost impossible to evaluate the man in rational terms," says a British diplomat. "With the coming of dawn, he may take off on a completely new tack." He is a man of mercury, quick to anger. Once when his second in command, Abdul Salam Jalloud, made a mistake, Gaddafi had Jalloud's hair shaved off. He often carries a side arm; more than once, he has lost patience and pulled out his gun, aiming it at the person who offended...
...chatter among the Longhorn partisans about taking on a bunch of Ivy League intellects? "Naw, I don't hype any game anyway, not whether it's Texas A&M, Arkansas, Houston or Harvard." And what's more, he was quick to point out, Texas may have 48,000 students, "but you still need a 1200 on your boards to get in, whatever that may mean to folks up here...
...this mess. It seems that King Ronald on horseback proclaimed, "For the stopping of Christmas, I'll never be blamed. From those bad man in PATCO I'll lift my injunction, By gee and by golly--this Xmas will function." So he told David Stockman (on his Trojan steed), "Quick, print up the extra cash that we'll need." Happy that Yuletide by fortune was kissed, We began the long task of preparing our list...
While Crimson trainer Pete Provinzano worked feverishly to patch up the bulky forward, Fleming went to work and scored four quick points on a jumper and a tough lay-up. Harvard point guard Calvin Dixon (no relation to Robin), who orchestrated the last-second heroics, put the game away with two free throws, and UNH failed to score in the final four seconds...