Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After 14 months of waiting for Provisional President Carlos Mendieta to turn into Santa Claus, every amateur Robespierre in Cuba went out last week for Mendieta's political scalp. It was not that they wanted quick elections to set up a stable government. Most of them knew an election would call their bluff. It was not that Mendieta was a tyrant. Most of the opposition "sectors" consider him too weak. The nearest thing to a sensible plan anyone had was to overthrow Mendieta, forcing his Chief of Staff Fulgencio Batista to set up a military dictatorship and thus offer...
...Quick-witted, he replied: "There are so many reasons. With your permission I will write my answers." So decadent was the Manchu Court that audacious Wang, instead of being beheaded for the capital crime of attempting the life of the Prince Regent, was permitted to paint his reasons at such length and in such exquisite characters that His Highness was charmed, condemned Wang to mere life imprisonment from which he was soon released by the Chinese Revolution...
...being merely fortunate until they saw her in the brief 30-minute runoff. Then paired with Andrew G. C. Sage's Sulu. Homewood Flirtatious found her first covey 50 seconds after she was put down. Two minutes later she nailed a single. As stylish as she was quick, Homewood Flirtatious backed her bracemate beautifully on Sulu's two finds, made two more of her own in the next 20 minutes. The second heat of the run-off between Doctor Blue Willing and Sports Peerless, was a mere formality. When it was over, the white-&-black pointer Homewood Flirtatious...
...problem that needs clarification. It would have been no kindness either to the University or the body of commuters for P.B.H. to have accepted supinely the burdon any longer. The peace of mind of the day student and the general health of the University will be served by a quick and vigorous handling of the problem...
With a makeshift lineup, the inspired Feslermen started off by running up eight points on the startled Elis before a single blue shot touched the hoop. Then the Blue team swung into action, and with long Tommie Wilson controlling the tap, Bud, Miles and his cohorts rang up twelve quick markers. Charley Kollinites tied it up with a pair of field goals as the half ended...