Word: quickers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protect himself, Saadi thought up a quick, slick deal. He assembled his legislature, submitted his resignation as governor, then had the deputies re-elect him to his old job in the Senate. But President Perón was quicker. He intervened (i.e., dismissed the governor and legislature) in Catamarca and dated the intervention back 24 hours, thus nullifying Saadi's maneuvers...
...Well, our team is GREEN. DESIMONE. But TEHAN is quicker than the IZZI and we'll give 'em a SOCCORSO. New give me a little THOMPSON, or ALTIERI you limb from limb...
...Ethel Barrymore, in the part of the dying old aristocrat, there can be nothing but praise. The most striking "character" in the movie, her quick wit and quicker tongue provide some of the sharpest and best-aimed assaults the film can offer. Her advice to Pinky, "Be yourself," is the key to understanding the moral and psychological conflict which are presented...
...single-voiced Soviet press, savage denunciations of the "Tito clique" crowded attacks on the "Anglo-American warmongers" off the front page. A Red army paper said that Tito would suffer the same fate "as Hitler and Mussolini, only this time much quicker." Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, Soviet Deputy Premier and Stalin's longtime pal, called upon the Red faithful to rally together for the grand push against Yugoslavia. He also gave them a significant definition of what it means to be a good Communist. "A proletarian internationalist," said he, "is one who, without any conditions, openly and honestly ... is ready...
...Readers refused to read anything except "the shortened paragraph, the carefully measured column, the 'punchy' sentence." The whole thing had reached its climax, he thought, in the new Cowles-published Quick-"a news digest of news digests." Wrote he: "One can easily imagine a digest of Quick (Quicker) and finally one of Quicker (Quickest). From Quickest to the nonreading of the news seems a logical next step...