Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Learning of the clandestine meeting and acting with quick efficiency, an unidentified opposition group had planted demolition charges in the foundation of the party headquarters. According to some reports, the plotters had even managed to gain access to the hall and place a bomb in a trash basket near the podium. At 9:05 p.m. on June 28th, about 15 minutes after Beheshti had begun to speak, the charges went off simultaneously. When the dust and debris had finally settled, a stunned and at first unbelieving count of the bodies began. There were plenty of white cloths in which...
...Chairman, Hu Yaobang (pronounced Who Yow-bong), is the obliging alter ego for Deng Xiaoping, the country's real strongman. A shade shorter and ten years younger than the 5-ft. 2-in., 76-year-old Deng, Hu has the same resilience, explosive energy and quick intelligence. At the same time, Hu is a demanding administrator who can be relied on to carry out the orders of his chief and champion...
...snap your fingers and change the schedule. It takes a long time to develop a show, make a show, promote it and build an audience. Fred didn't know how hard it would be-and neither did the people who were so quick to attack...
...Even the fourteen-year-olds looked at least twenty with their long skirts and their neat, small waists strapped in leather belts. There were curtsies all along the passage as Mother Radcliffe passed. Most were no more than quick, springy bobs, but some were deep and slow and wonderful to watch." These are among the first observations of Fernanda Grey, who at nine embarks on the frightening experience of going to boarding school at Lippington in the last decade before World War I. And an exotic place it is, tending to the daughters of "old, great Catholic families, the frontierless...
...Little Johnnie did some fast growing up. He channelled his anger into two crushing serves-two quick points, and the score was suddenly deuce. Twice more in the same game Borg reached set point. Twice more McEnroe drove him to the canvas backdrop with twisting, slicing serves. He won the set in a tie-breaker and cruised confidently through the final ten games to round out his 4-6, 7-6, 7-6, 6-4 triumph...