Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third singles slot, Adan Beren and Eli John Stiepel matched powerful serves, but Beren's quick reflexes and dazzling all-court play gave him the edge in the 6-3, 6-2 match...
...miles, the halfway point in the race, we were in Wellesley, where we funneled through a mass of screaming students who stood cheering in the rain for hours. After that experience I will never have the heart to make a wisecrack about Wellesley again, although one quick-minded student tried to get my brother's phone number...
...again launched a brazen operation, this time during the nightly curfew. They smashed locks and shutters on a number of prosperous shops in the Pushtun Market, and made off with more than $1 million worth of cash and jewelry. Functionaries of the ruling People's Democratic Party were quick to blame the crime on insurgents, who were said to be trying to embarrass the government. The rebels denied responsibility, insisting that only the official cadres could have acted with such impunity during the curfew...
...joined the Kennedy Senate staff. By 1960 he and Theodore Sorenson were Kennedy's two chief speechwriters--indispensable to the campaign and to the formation of Kennedy's foreign and domestic policies. He was, in the words of Kennedy biographer Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., "the archetypal New Frontiersman," a quick-witted generalist "able to take on any subject, however new and complicated, master its essentials with rapidity and precision and arrive at ideas for action...
...conclusion it appears that the swim team is being judged too harshly. Once last year they lost sight of a battle near to Harvard hearts--beating Princeton. Noting the quick recovery, why should they be flogged for their ability to transcend the league and perform with some degree of success at the national level...