Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gromyko spoke before the assembly the next day. Evoking memories of the icy rhetoric of the cold war, the Soviet minister caustically attacked U.S. policies around the globe, including its "imperialist interference" in El Salvador. He charged that the U.S. Rapid Deployment Force, designed for quick military action around the world, was "nothing but a policeman's billy club." Noting the contrast between Haig's blandness and Gromyko's bellicosity, French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson quipped that the talks had been given by "Mr. Haig and General Gromyko...
...wooden bench. O'Connor then took a second oath ("I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States ..."), and a clerk of the court helped Justice O'Connor slip on a black robe over her lavender-colored dress. With a quick smile and a sure step, O'Connor took her place beside her colleagues. Like the opinions she has handed down in her two years on the Arizona State Court of Appeals, the ceremony was brief (six minutes) and precise. The robe was the same one she had worn while...
...resurrection but not the life. CBS appears to assume that Hillbillies appealed chiefly to yokels, dullards and children, when in fact it was a secret favorite of some college professors and was indebted to the populist film comedies of Frank Capra. It was the story of got-rich-quick innocents coping with the darker side of the American Dream-the fear that even with money and social access they could never belong. Eleven years later, the Clampetts are settled, even smug, with no remaining sense of wonder about the world. CBS has concocted a wacko two-hour plot about using...
Powered by lightening-quick performance from freshmen Jenny Stricker and Kate Wiley, the Harvard women's cross country team yesterday ran circles around the outclassed University of New Hampshire and Brown squads at dreary Franklin Park...
Egged on by a sparse but enthusiastic, beer-guzzling crowd, the Crimson came out gunning in the third period. Rich Guerra set the pace with a goal after two minutes of play, and Fasi followed with two more quick ones to open up an imposing 8-3 lead...