Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fellow legislator, with a quick thought on recent terrorism, offered an endorsement. Said he: "This suggestion would be useful if certain people were thus reminded of 'Thou shalt not kill.' " But the council dropped the suggestion after a member asked: How would the naming system look to a mailman who had to deliver letters to No. 7, Thou-Shalt-Not-Commit-Adultery Street...
...repairing a cold with hot grog. The book, said Maugham, would be "the last book of my life ... a romance . . ." and he meant not to dally. "I feel that when a man reaches my age [73 next month] and he wants to write a romance, he ought to be quick...
...over the net. Aggressive as ever, California's Kramer scrambled in behind his serve and put away shots with overhand smashes and light teasers. He still had one fault to work on: his forehand drives were floating instead of zipping. But he-beat Teammate Frank Parker in two quick sets and said, "Boy, it feels good to be hitting them again." If he kept on hitting them, he could spoil a big Christmas Week for confident, sport-crazy Australia...
German scientists and educators thought up the idea, got a quick yes from the U.S. military government. They hope to recruit some of the faculty for the German School of Advanced Studies from scholars exiled by the Nazis. Courses will be taught in German and the school will be paid for mainly by 3,500,000 marks ($350,000) of German local-government funds. Probable site: the old Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute in the U.S. sector of Berlin...
...smattering of mysteries, has consistently put out first-rate titles (e.g., Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence; Ignazio Silone's Bread and Wine; Shaw's Pygmalion, Saint Joan and Major Barbara), and neither of Penguin's rivals has ever tried to make a quick quarter sale of Greek or Roman masterpieces...