Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feather in his hat and a lamp on his noggin, having completely encircled the globe. In Shanghai, Powell crosses paths with Signe Hasso, in company with a young Chinese girl who later turns out to be older than she looks and ringleader of the entire dope chain. After a quick hop to Egypt and a climb up a precipitous Red Sea cliff, he discovers what he is looking for, a freshly harvested poppy field disguised as a rose plantation. And from there he follows the raw opium across the Atlantic, finally closing in on the whole racket in a tense...
Union student waiters received a quick reply to their complaints on working conditions and wages yesterday, when John W. Holt, director of the Student Employment Bureau, reminded them that "if you want results, you must first make complaints...
...fencing team has been on the upsweep since its initial loss to Cornell, and has won the last three matches in quick succession. They cross with Columbia in the Blockhouse at 2:30 o'clock...
Successor to Darwin? Sexologist Wilfred C. Kinsey was not taken aback by the uproar. He had predicted three years ago that his book might sell a million copies (all royalties would go back into the project). Journeymen book reviewers took a quick look and promptly hailed Kinsey as one of the greatest scientists since Darwin. He appeared to have found that some 85% of U.S. men have premarital intercourse, nearly 70% have intercourse with prostitutes, between 30% and 45% have extra-marital intercourse and 37% have some kind of homosexual experience...
...Communist Unitá, quick to make national political capital out of the Pescara results, crowed triumphantly: "The Front has shown itself to be an instrument capable of drawing together and organizing all Italians without difference of class. . . ." Following up their advantage, the Front pointed to other promises. Moscow favored Italian trusteeship under the U.N. for Italy's prewar African colonies; if the Front won power in the April elections, a way might be found to bring Trieste back under Italian control.* What, asked the Front, could Premier de Gasperi offer? The Front's answer: only more U.S. meddling...