Word: quickers
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...would buy an airplane and take up as many friends as I could." James Hough would wait in the garden: "I would pray that it would land in the sea and do no damage." One girl decided to stab herself to death with a carving knife ("It would be quicker that way"). Billy Peart wrote stoutly: "I would make sure we could press the button which would send our rockets back to Russia...
...internal organ which, in every red-blooded Charlestonian, beats quicker when the band strikes up Dixie...
Unexploded Bomb. "Well, here you are," said General de Gaulle, face to face with a man who like himself had become a cartoonists' delight (see cuts). "We are ready to hear you and to be heard by you." Quicker than a wink, Khrushchev plunked his glasses on his nose, whipped out a thick manuscript. He paid pointed tribute to President de Gaulle as the man who had not "bowed his head to the [German] occupiers." If France and the Soviet had only had a firmer alliance, he said, blandly ignoring his own country's 1939 pact with Hitler...
...knew they'd be pinched quicker than that." He added complacently: "It's still business as usual among the pros...
...added power, once it has become completely adequate, for compelling the respect of any potential opponent." The fiscal 1960 budget, said he, appropriates $6,690,000,000 for missiles, "and this, it seems to me, is getting close to the point where money itself will not bring you any quicker development...