Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surface had barely been scratched, however, when such hopes were severely dashed. Yuri Gusak put Wisconsin on the scoreboard first after only one minute of play. It took another 14 minutes for the next tally, but after they came in quick succession for Badgers...
With under five minutes left in the period, Granato--younger brother of the NHL's Tony and women's Olympian Cammi--utilized his quick first stride and broke by the Harvard defense at center ice. Harvard goaltender J.R. Prestifilippo knocked away Granato's first attempt, but a second slap at the puck sent both Presto and the puck into the back...
...Coach kept drilling defense and rebounding into our heads," Clemente said. "They're a really quick team and they're a good one-on-one team, but we just played great team defense...
...years Grove enforced that narrow margin with a quick, violent temper--the polar opposite of his mentor, Moore. New employees at Intel suspected it was a management trick: Andy getting mad to get results. What they discovered was that the anger was real. Grove had an internal code of excellence, and when someone didn't live up to it, he hammered him. In 1984 FORTUNE named him one of America's toughest bosses. Sometimes even he recognized that he had gone too far. "After I cooled down, I apologized," he wrote of one '80s encounter that had him bellowing...
...never stops. Americans are working 160 hours more each year than they did 20 years ago, moonlighting is on the rise and nearly half the respondents in one survey said they have less time for lunch. They stop at the back-rub store for five minutes to get some quick relief. They stop at the supermarket to pick up a precooked "home-meal replacement." Anxiety disorders affect more people than depression or substance abuse. "People were saying, 'As soon as things get good, I'm going to take some time off,'" says pollster Celinda Lake. "And now they...