Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goddammit," says Odets, "we're living in an age of learn-it-quick. Everyone wants to learn all the tricks of everything he does, all the angles. Every professional writer feels the pressure this vicious, evil society imposes. But in watercolor painting I don't feel that. I can relax. I am an amateur, and I can damn well produce something on which $100,000 doesn't hinge. I paint for two reasons: to cultivate my innocence and to cultivate my ignorance...
...could describe exactly how the swarming organisms kill sea life. Perhaps they actually poison the fish; perhaps they suffocate fish by blocking their gills. But there is no quick remedy. This week dead fish, but fewer of them, were still coming ashore. The only thing Florida chambers of commerce could do was hope that the next cold snap would clear the sea of yellow-green streaks...
Trailing 5 to 3 at the beginning of the third period, the Yearlings fought their way out in front as leftwingman Larry Ward drove home two of his total of five markers in quick succession and Gid Loring whacked Haven Abbett's pass into the not for the clincher...
Newton was quick to tally in the second period, but Steve Washburn then took up the cause, driving in one on an assist from Art Lee. Hamlen poked in another to make the score 3 to 2 and put the lid on further threats. Key's shot in the final period froze the score...
...Palm Beach, where he now spends his winters, he lives in a large, cream-colored Spanish villa called "The Towers," which he bought last year for $160,000. Young ordinarily gets up at 6 a.m., goes for a quick dip in the surf, eats a quick breakfast, then quickly gets to work. His workroom is a second-floor bedroom facing the ocean. For a desk he uses two ordinary card tables, pulled together. Scorning ghostwriters, he writes all his own magazine articles, personally turns out copy...