Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, ECA's boss Paul Hoffman continued energetically taking his first quick EGA steps. He made an official appointment. He named Dr. Dennis A. FitzGerald, gaunt, able director of the Department of Agriculture's Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations, as chief of ECA's food division. "He's probably the greatest authority on food procurement and distribution in the world," Hoffman said. FitzGerald came to Washington 13 years ago from Iowa State College...
...still has a quick eye for good-looking women, and an obvious attraction to them. He makes a point of telling friends that he never looks in mirrors, even to shave, says, "I hate my face." Friends who went with him to see the first showing of The Hymn of the Nations, the movie he made for OWI during the war, said he looked away self-consciously whenever his image came on the screen. But he dresses fastidiously, is visibly pleased when a friend remarks on a new coat or suit (most of which he still has made...
Last week, in a quick clap of editorial thunder, Bertie McCormick answered them: "This is tantamount to a request that we try to glamorize the doings of the U.N. . . . Our reporters who cover the meetings of U.N., or Congress, or the legislature are expected to know the difference between windbags, crooks and statesmen, and to treat them accordingly in all news dispatches ... So long ... as U.N. remains a fraud on the hopes of many decent people, it will be treated...
...steelmen, these losses were only a down payment. Gambling on a quick end to the strike, they had used most of their coal reserves to keep production as close to normal as possible. They would hardly be able to rebuild the reserves by June 30, when the miners' contract expires and another strike is expected. The next one, if it comes, would force a quick and sharp cut in steel production...
...Encyclopedia . . . Smoking too much makes me nervous . . . Arose at 9 o'clock ... I think freckles ... are due to some salt of iron [in] low state of oxidation ... A little dog . . . just came [in], face as dismal as a bust of Dante . . . dinner at 3 p.m. ... I eat too quick . . . Commenced reading . . . don't like Dickens-don't know why ... I must read Jane Eyre . . . Played a little on the piano . . . badly out of tune . . . Sardines [for supper] . . . could scarcely swallow them . . . This is Sunday ... I will read the new version of the Bible . . . Encyclopedia Britannica [steadies...