Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complaint about rats in the neighborhood led William Gentry, a Baltimore health-department inspector, from house to house on Baltimore's Reisterstown Road until he came to the home of one Aaron D. Frank. One quick look showed the Frank house to be in "an extreme state of decay," and disclosed-as health-department officialese put it-a backyard pile of "rodent feces mixed with straw and trash and debris to approximately half a ton." But Aaron Frank refused to let the inspector in the house without a warrant. After Inspector Gentry was kept out a second time, Householder...
Entries may be written in any form, though the length is limited to 40-90 minutes and the deadline is Sept. 28. The plays must be submitted in triplicate to facilitate quick judging by the panel...
...replying to the numerous queries put to him during his six hour visit, Feiffer relied on his spontaneous and quick reflexes which, when added to his other birdlike features, gave him a general appearance not unlike that of a chicken hawk on the make...
...Teacher's Quality. Gradually, Braithwaite and his class learned mutual respect. The students' "sir"' became less forced, and the teacher's prejudices began to break down as he found a few quick, honest minds among the slum children. Progress was not smooth: Braithwaite was forced to outslug the class troublemaker, a hulking amateur boxer, and habitual bigotry cut through newly learned tolerance when the class refused to take flowers to the house of a Negro boy whose white mother had died. (Tolerance ultimately won, and the entire class showed up for the funeral...
...confident CRIMSON softball nine bided its time until the ninth inning Friday, then exploded for 23 quick runs to thrash its WHRB challengers...