Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Having bought their way into addiction, affluent users often try to buy their way out. They can pick and choose from a long menu of treatments, from acupuncture to cocaine-blocking medications like imipramine and desipramine, but there are no quick fixes. In the end, all crack addicts, rich or poor, must put themselves back on their own feet -- a slow process that calls for professional counseling, steady support from family and friends, fearless self-examination and not a little pain...
...great draftsman. Drawing was as natural to him as speech; Raphael, in fact, took him on as a studio assistant when Giulio was not much more than ten. The grace, the spontaneity of his pen line -- rushing over the paper as though impelled by the lightest inflection of thought, quick but always controlled, strengthened by brown washes that confirm its structure -- does not always translate to the paintings and frescoes, where it seems heavier and overdetermined. But with Giulio, design and invention were inseparable, and their combination is worn so lightly that one may not realize how difficult were...
...consider that it is exceptionally difficult to administer quick and complete justice under the current working conditions," the president of the 24-member court, Fabio Moron Diaz, said in a statement...
Soon afterward, the quick-witted staff learned that parodies of the Daily had been distributed to student mailboxes in place of the authentic newspapers...
...Cornell made us feel pretty blue, but it takes more than quick-wittedness to beat our Blue in football," Geier said...