Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked so good. One night-which became famed as "gentleman's agreement" night - the bright lights at Flushing beat down on a dapper, suave, self-assured diplomat with a red handkerchief flopping out of his coat pocket. This was Britain's Sir Hartley Shawcross, 44, a quick-witted prosecutor who had not yet learned that, at international conferences, haste makes waste, or worse...
...junketeers missed the overture. The furious bugling, the quick rattle of gunfire, the bomb burst at dawn at Maracay Airport barely disturbed them as they slept nearby in the sprawling Hotel Jardin. To the New York Daily News's John O'Donnell, the bomb sounded like a distant door slam. He went back to sleep...
...tourists were on hand, bathed and breakfasted, for the 9 o'clock act. A rebel light plane buzzed the hotel entrance, gave loungers there a quick machine-gun burst. By the time the next and last rebel plane swooped down, rotund Bernard Relin, L.A.V.'s New York pressagent, had clucked his willing charges behind stone pillars and solid masonry...
...performance of the game, but the Terriers moved back into contention, and the teams matched basket for basket the rest of the way. Harvard led 28 to 16 at the half, and early in the final twenty minutes B.U. moved to within seven points of the Crimson, but two quick dueces pushed the Barclay five into another safe lead which it maintained thereafter...
Staging an abortive uprising after Fletcher slammed an Almy pass through their goalie at the beginning of the second period, the Belmontmen retaliated with two quick goals while the Yardlings were short-handed to come within one point of evening the count...