Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arkansas scored two quick goals before intermission and collected three other goals in the third period to take a 7-3 lead. By then, it was no contest...
...another veto might be overridden. "We don't need to be known as the party that squeezed the last penny out of the minimum wage," said Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole. After the Administration signaled its agreement, the measure passed the House by a vote of 382 to 37. Quick approval is expected in the Senate, and the President could sign the bill by Thanksgiving...
...burning was designed to produce a quick challenge to the Flag Protection Act of 1989, passed by Congress last month amid an orgy of jingoistic rhetoric. If the Supreme Court strikes down the law on constitutional grounds, as seems likely, Congress might be stampeded into approving an anti-flag burning amendment urged by President Bush. It might be wiser to turn down the heat...
...late. Fox had already decided to scrap the program in favor of a new late-night entry, The Wilton North Report. "I was able to do a lot of stuff because the Fox executives weren't watching," says Hall. "No one cared." When Wilton North was a quick failure, Fox asked Hall to return. But by this time his attention was elsewhere, notably in movies: he had just shot Coming to America, the first of a three-picture deal with Paramount. Hall turned down the Fox offer...
...from Hitler's troops and were poised to take Berlin. Although the ailing Roosevelt knew that the U.S. could soon assault Japan with the first atom bomb, his top military advisers doubted that its use would be immediately decisive. An American priority at Yalta was to ensure Japan's quick defeat by persuading Stalin to join the Far East conflict once Germany surrendered...