Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those who are so quick to blame Prime Minister Thatcher and her tight-fisted monetary policies for England's urban riots [July 20] forget that America's riots in the '60s took place during the spending spree of Lyndon Baines Johnson, author of the Great Society...
...anti-Hugel faction at the CIA, sometimes using members of an "old boy" network of former agents, pushed for a quick Casey kill. It fed Goldwater the dubious information that Casey had emerged from Multiponics' bankruptcy in 1971 with a profit of some $750,000; he insisted he had lost almost his entire $145,000 investment. The same CIA sources apparently spread a false report that Casey and Hugel had planned a covert operation aimed at the "ultimate" removal of Libya's Strongman Muammar Gadaffi from power. Misinformation was leaked to Newsweek that the House Intelligence Committee...
...appoint Fred D. Thompson, a longtime friend from Tennessee who was Republican counsel in the Senate's Watergate investigation, as chief counsel in the Casey probe. Thompson accepted the post, promising a prompt but careful study. Casey supplied the committee with volumes of documents and demanded a quick hearing...
...these days. He runs around prostituting his wife, Bo. Granted it's a nice, clean, look-but-don't-touch prostitution: usually in the pages of Playboy, or in the movie theatres. He announces to the public: Look what I get to sleep with every night! And he's quick to point out that nobody photographs her but him. One can hardly blame John for being infatuated with Bo, for she is very beautiful indeed and as long as he wants to show her off and she is willing to go along with it, there will no doubt exist...
...Intern was unconvinced, for he was from the Northwest where the winters are also cold, but, as he was quick to point out, there still remained vestiges of an art to living. Maybe it was the pioneer spirit, he thought. Or maybe it was something in the croissants on the East Coast. Whatever it was, he didn't like...