Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When games were on the line and Los Angeles needed baskets, it sent out a "quick team," which could maintain a tremendous level of defensive intensity for the duration of the 24-second shot clock. The Celtics would commit shot clock violations that led to Laker wins...
...steals go, I try to be in the right place at the right time," Gustilo said modestly. But the junior, with her long arms and quick hands, has become a great ball hawk...
...when about 15 Houses send boats to descend on the Charles for this Sunday's Undergraduate Council raft race, the winner will be the boat that finishes second. Organizers say they want to give the boats a greater challenge on the muddy waters instead of encouraging a quick race to the finish line...
...weak as he may have appeared, Carter never stooped to trading arms for hostages. And he hardly ignored the abuses of our adversaries. He was quick to denounce violations of human rights in Soviet-bloc countries. Under his administration, the flow of Jewish emigration from Russia reached its highest level. He also campaigned for human rights in right-wing regimes: his Administration's diplomatic pressure spurred the release of thousands of victims of state repression in Brazil and Indonesia. Carter "stood tall" to all opponents of human rights, on the Left and Right, unlike the Reagan administration...
...present the outlook is not very bright," Olmsted said. "Consider the combination of chronic shortness in budgets and bureacratic face-saving tries for quick-fixes and cheap effects, and all this physical deterioration and it's just inevitable that it will have effects...