Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this quick switch to the Moscow line the Communists became just about the only Korean group not on record against the Moscow agreement. Later, when Hodge and the Russian officials in the north got together to discuss a joint occupation plan, all negotiations broke down over Russian insistence that no Koreans who had opposed trusteeship be allowed to participate in the Government. The Americans, who had won over many Korean leaders to the idea that independence must come gradually, wanted to put the exclusion clause in the future tense, and exclude only those who should try to fan up opposition...
When he walked onto the platform in awkward, quick steps, Bernstein was greeted by waves of applause that didn't subside until, just as awkwardly, he turned around and lifted his hands to begin Schumann's Symphony No. 2. Some said the ovation overshadowed the greeting given Toscanini when he conducted the orchestra's first concert...
Chicago, said the U.S.P.H.S., is too hospitable to rats. City laws forbid public exterminators to spread loose poison on private premises. But private exterminators work only in and immediately around buildings. That leaves a "no man's land'' in every backyard, which the rats have been quick to discover...
...June and the Paycock" takes a lot more in the way of acting and direction than a quick reading of Sean O'Casey's masterpiece might indicate, a lot more than the Dramatic Club has been able to give it. With almost no exceptions, for example, the east last night failed to achieve even the minimum requirements of a brogue. Actors crossed awkwardly in front of each other, faced the audience for no apparent reason other than a sheer desire...
...warm Mediterranean air around the little French town of Grasse was heavy with the fragrance of carnations, jasmine and roses. Working in quick-fingered teams, the white-bloused girls of Grasse filled wicker baskets with blossoms, carried them to the huge stills to have the odorous oils extracted. Combined and transmuted by chemists, they will be dabbed behind the ears of women throughout the world to multiply the risk of genteel seduction...