Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976, after a brief hiatus, it stressed that extreme vigilance should be applied in capital cases since death is, after all, the "most irrevocable of sanctions." But the U.S. has spent the past 20 years trading that idea in for the ideal of quick justice. The Supreme Court and the lower levels of the federal judiciary have steadily narrowed the methods of appeal. In 1984 and 1986, for example, the Supreme Court ruled that defendants were not entitled to special appeals reviews and that striking jurors from capital cases because they oppose the death...
...recall petition was started at school. And on a local radio show, the Williamses were called Yankees and carpetbaggers. Shaken but still on her feet, Alison went to a meeting where school-board members shifted and shrugged when she asked to speak, and one finally grumbled, "Make it quick." "When they did that to her," her father says, "I said, 'Alison, however far you want to take this, I'm behind...
When he decided to escape the muggy Memphis heat with a quick plunge into the Wolf River, singer Jeff Buckley had every reason to feel buoyed by good fortune. At 30 he was signed to Columbia Records--the home of Bob Dylan and Miles Davis--and had just settled into a cozy old house in town to begin recording a follow-up to Grace, his powerful 1994 debut. That album, a darkly romantic and stunningly original blend of folk, blues and alternative rock, had earned Buckley a reputation as a superstar in the making, much as Greetings from Asbury Park...
...Quick, name a euonym for REBECCA SEALFON, 13, of Brooklyn, N.Y. If you said "spelling master," you'd be right, and if you said "highly nervous and eccentric spelling master," you'd be even righter. Sealfon correctly spelled euonym (meaning: an appropriate name) to win the 1997 Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee last week. The home-schooled whiz was such a wreck, she asked to wait offstage between spelling such words as deliquesce and sufflaminate. Her final nine-round spelldown with Prem Murthy Trivedi, 11, of Howell, N.J., ended after he put an extra l in the word cortile (that...
...Rebecca Gayheart, the "Noxzema girl," poses with her sweater unbuttoned in GQ; the Drew Carey Show's Christa Miller poses with her shirt open in Maxim)--can disguise the creeping feminization of men's magazines. This brings up a terrifying specter from decades past that Cooper, for one, is quick to exorcize. "Alan Alda," he says during a discussion of potential cover subjects, "is not a GQ hero." Amen to that...