Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reasons unknown to me, the management of the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong, our first stop, put us up in the bridal suite ($25 a day U.S.), and the airport customs inspector gave me a quick frisk-for guns or opium, no doubt. At Rangoon, where we landed in monsoon weather, I was met at the airport by a little brown man wearing a red skirt and sandals who politely informed me that the Government guest house awaited us. That was news to me-until I found out that he was looking for a United Nations man named Green...
...plan to feel them out in the first ten minutes, and then open up with our pass attack," Fiend said. "If Dartmouth stops our Quest-Shon Mark attack, we can always use our quick-opening series...
...race arose when Radcliffe restored yachting to its official roster of sports after a war-time lapse. Immediately, the Annex trio issued its challenge, and Putnam was quick to accept for the Harvard yacht team...
...displays human feelings, but he has not-in the first two volumes, at least-made of George Washington a more lovable figure for popular consumption. Readers of the seven thick volumes on Lee and his generals know that Freeman is not a portrait painter who gets his effect with quick, inspired strokes; his method is careful and cumulative. His works are what book reviewers are apt to call monumental, and monumental they literally are: built block by patient block, soundly based, immense, monochromatic-and towering high...
...most of the second period and a few brief moments in the third, they were the better team. But when Army pulled itself together, expleded two quick touchdowns, and regained the upper hand, Harvard never lost ballance and collapsed...