Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even more conspicuous signals. Moscow's message congratulating the Chinese on the Oct. 1 anniversary of Mao's takeover, longer and more positive than last year's, stressed the need to negotiate differences. Sino-Soviet trade talks were under way in Moscow-though analysts were quick to point out that these talks have been held annually, even in the worst periods of Sino-Soviet tension. There were other signs as well. Two hundred thousand copies of a stinging anti-Mao broadside were withdrawn a day after they went on sale in Moscow; a check of bookstores...
Draft lawyers are quick to defend their motives. Many feel that peacetime conscription is unjust, unnecessary and unAmerican. They are convinced that draft boards are often callous, bureaucratic, discriminatory-and usually ignorant of the law. Under the circumstances, they argue, a young man is perfectly justified in hiring a lawyer to protect his rights...
...Borrowed Time. To her surprise, the psychiatrist encountered stubborn resistance not from the dying but from the quick. The reaction of physicians ranged from annoyance to overt hostility. Once this wall of official resistance was breached, Dr. Kübler-Ross found that the dying themselves were only too willing to talk. In four years the seminar has heard from 150 patients; there have been only three refusals. The author now understands why. "To live on borrowed time," she writes, "to wait in vain for the doctors to make their rounds, lingering on from visiting hours to visiting hours, looking...
...Huntsville, Ala., swallowed a large number of aspirins, plus some sleeping pills and tranquilizers. Her local doctor, knowing that she needed help fast, but unsure of the proper antidote, made one telephone call. A brief consultation with an expert on drugs gave the puzzled physician the simple answer. A quick stomach pumping brought the woman out of danger. Three months ago she might have died...
...many in the business community worry that rising unemployment or the approach of the 1970 elections may cause the Administration to lose its nerve and ease its battle against inflation too soon. After four years, the disease is too deeply embedded in the economy to be susceptible to a quick cure...