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Word: quickly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...owns all the right "junk" too, throwing a strong fastball, a sweeping curve, a quick-breaking slider, and a confusing change-up. He has endurance, as evidenced by his 16 strikeout performance against Yale in '67. Those major league scouts watching that game must have been considerably impressed, for Peters was the only right-handed pitcher selected by the major league scouting directors to the Sporting News All-American Team last summer...

Author: By Al Brenholts, | Title: Harvard Ace Ray Peters Signed by New AL Club | 2/12/1969 | See Source »

...first period started fast with Harvard getting a quick jump at 2:57 when sophomore Joey Cavanagh picked up a Dan DeMichele pass, skated in and netted the puck from 10 feet. A Harvard penalty at 7:03 gave B.U. an advantage but a great defensive effort by Harvard combined by several spectacular saves by Bruce Durno averted any score. The rest of the period saw more fine defensive play by both teams preclude any further score...

Author: By Stephen F. Kelley, | Title: Harvard Icemen Trounce B.U., 5-3 | 2/11/1969 | See Source »

...discontented, even angered. All of us are tormented by the war in Vietnam and its recalcitrant opposition to repeated efforts at solution. None of us is unaware of or unmoved by the manifold troubles which confront us at home and the apparent inability of established institutions to make adequate quick response. There can be no question here of a generation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pusey Reports on the University: No More Ivory Towers | 2/8/1969 | See Source »

...with a "policy of openness," pledged to stamp out corruption, release political prisoners and welcome exiles home. But the junta had too narrow a power base to tolerate such liberal measures. Last Dec. 3, when the Israelis shelled and bombed Iraqi forces in Jordan, the Al-Bakr regime was quick to blame its growing internal troubles on Israeli spies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: DEATH, DIPLOMACY AND DIMINISHING PEACE | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...power of cutting off all Federal funds to school districts that did not "satisfactorily desegregate." The importance of the fund-cutting power became clear in the next four years. While court cases dragged on for months and forced only minimal concessions from Southern school districts, Johnson's HEW got quick results when it applied the financial pincers. By 1968, the mere threat of cutting funds was enough to convince eight previously-recalcitrant districts to desegregate...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Jamie, Strom, and Dick | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

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