Word: quickers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found. It is discouraging to consider how many years must pass before the people of the United States will recognize and set upon the simple principles of justice and equality about which they can speak so glibly. Yet this evolutionary process, while not so soul satisfying as more drastic, quicker methods, is the one which will eventually result in giving a new and better meaning to the basic principles which are embodied in the 14th amendment...
...winter offensive, traveling the country to address rallies when he can escape his almost daily duties in Parliament, writing editorials for his press, hammering out the rough issues of party discipline. But Togliatti's eyes were brighter, the lines in his face less deep, the broad grin quicker and more assured than I had ever seen them before...
...three times a week; Mario translates into English for her. She is surer than ever of one thing: "The child is capable of achieving culture at an age hitherto unsuspected." She now teaches arithmetic at 3½, algebra at five, and finds that eight-year-olds learn algebra quicker than 14-year-olds, for they consider it a game, instead of something to dread. An 18-month-old child, she says, is "perhaps happiest when learning" and every child's "age of formation" takes place before he is six. From seven to twelve, says Maria Montessori, is the time...
...throne followed by his Queen, Isabella. His eyes were downcast and glued to his outturned feet for fear he might trip on his trousers. When at last he stood at the top, the crowd applauded. Pedro started to prostrate himself to kiss the Pope's slipper, but Pius, quicker than he, put out a restraining hand and proffered the papal ring instead. Then the two talked, and tears welled in the old King's eyes...
...week, a hotel manager turned down one party of 20 wealthy U.S. tourists because a travel agency planned to use a bus to bring them from the boat train. "Sorry," he announced, "but we simply can't have people arriving here in charabancs." There were other Europeans even quicker to pull in the welcome mat. "In Venice," says the guide book, "you may hear nationalists in barrooms chanting, 'Andate via, gli stranieri!' But then, the monolingual U.S. tourist might never suspect that those musical words mean, 'Go away, foreigners...