Word: quickest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over it,' Meese says, putting on his glasses. Then he spots an old friend wandering in the hall. 'Jim,' Meese calls out, grabs his arm and introduces him around. Every conversation starts with a pleasantry. Often a visitor, who has carefully planned the quickest way to say what he needs to say, is disarmed...
...What I call the Klitgaard strategy is the quickest way to make a name for oneself by coming out against those who can't hit back," Counter said...
...follow me if you want to know the quickest way back," said Bruin goalie Jim Craig, en route from practice to his Brookline home to watch soap operas. "But I don't think you'll keep up. I don't mean to lose you or anything--it's just the way I drive...
...just as a criminal learns to spot a plainclothesman by some quirk of manner or dress, or a basketball star tells a head fake from a real jump shot by some giveaway preliminary movement. He even has a solution to the age-old problem of how to choose the quickest line at a fast-food restaurant: go for the one with the most young adults wearing backpacks; they generally turn out to be students or bicycle riders ordering only for themselves and not for families or groups. Says Archer: "I believe we must unshackle ourselves from the tendency to ignore...
...white vests, fashioned from tablecloths, 128 Carter floor whips watched for any delegates who looked wobbly on the rule. In a three-hour rehearsal they had discovered that they could send orders to all the Carter delegates on the jammed floor within seven minutes. They had memorized the quickest routes through the nearly always clogged aisles to the alternate delegates seated in tiers above the floor. They had run through an imaginary roll call. They were in instant communication with the command trailers just off the convention floor. They were ready...