Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indication of the crime rate: At night, as residents are quick to point out, it is virtually impossible to find a regular taxi. Drivers flee to safer sides of town, often decline--despite stiff penalties for turning down passengers--to take anyone into the area. The void is filled by scores of unmetered and unlicensed "gypsy cabs," identified by a little orange light in the right-hand corner of the windshield. Fares depend pretty much on the mood of the driver...
Junior Francis Haggerty shot through a quick 53.0 in the 440 hurdles to clock his fastest time, but finished ninth, well behind Leon Coleman of Winston-Salem...
...much more pragmatic, less concerned with making people think in an entirely new framework." Conyers is militant. He sounds the theme over and over again: at present America simply doesn't hold out much real promise for the economically disadvantaged, especially Negroes. And he is strident -- he wants quick economic action, a vastly expanded anti-poverty program. That is one reason he has so vociferously opposed the war in Vietnam and has for over a year suggested as coalition between the civil rights and peace movements...
...this is the source of Conyers' charisma in the eyes of many Negroes. They know that he feels that the Democratic party must confront the problems of the nation's disadvantaged with a massive and quick effort. They know that he thinks that many of the traditional supporters of past reform legislation -- like the unions in particular -- simply do not appreciate the magnitude of the task that confronts former New Dealers...
...research was being done on the relationship between eye-movement patterns and speed of reading. In reading 100 words, the eye makes 100 to 150 stops, called "fixation pauses." Each fixation takes about one-quarter of a second. In moving from one fixation to another, the eye makes a quick jerk which takes only about 15 thousandths of a second. The eye often moves backward toward the beginning of the line to get a clearer view of the material or to reread it. These are called regressions and occur about ten times per 100 words. The interfixation moves--the jerks...