Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time the Pope reached the Gemelli Polyclinic, he was barely conscious and bleeding heavily. A team of doctors headed by Francesco Crucitti immediately began the work of assessing the injuries. A sample of his blood was taken for quick typing (he requires not-too-common Type A, Rh-negative), and the doctors started giving him fluids intravenously. General anesthesia was administered through a tube inserted down his throat, which also facilitated breathing...
...author. Beaumarchais' language springs from that same period of transition which in England created a Samuel Johnson--classically balanced sentences informed with a nascent romantic sense of power and purpose. Leib delivers all the author's aphorisms and anecdotes in contemporary, but not vulgarly "updated," English; and a quick comparison between his version of Figaro's monologue and those of other translators--even that of such a luminary as Jacques Barzun--shows the difference...
Advances in weaponry development have been matched by changes in strategy and supply. Sobered by the lessons of 1973, when crucial time was lost in getting units and their armor to the front, the I.D.F. has since concentrated on quick response and mobility. Emergency stores of equipment that were kept in the central sector of the country before 1973 have been moved to the fronts. The amount of armor available at the fronts has also been heavily reinforced. Most
Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais, though visibly shaken by his first-round setback, was hardly resigned to a marginal role under a Mitterrand presidency, however. Indeed, Marchais was quick to show that ill urging his disciplined followers to vote for Mitterrand in last week's runoff, he was making less than a genuine fraternal gesture of leftist solidarity. "This is not a blank check," he said and then asked, "Have you ever seen me support anyone for free?" There is little doubt that the wily proletarian leader will soon be knocking at the portals of Elysée Palace...
...have begun to add a touch of color to slopes and clear areas, still covered with ash and mud. Lupines are beginning to grow along erosion channels. Tiny fir trees, freed from competition with their fallen parents, are expected to take advantage of the extra sunlight and make a quick comeback. Scientists say that nutrients from the volcanic ash-such as phosphorus and potassium-could actually enhance their growth. As if to prove the point, some farm areas that were dusted with ash had record harvests of wheat and apples last year...