Word: rapidly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rise was so rapid that it can be traced to her very first picture, The Trouble with Harry (1955), a Hitchcock exercise in ghoulish gaiety. She was the cute little widow who could help exhume and rebury her husband's corpse half a dozen times, looking fond, puzzled, but no more perturbed than the president of a garden club transplanting gardenias. Next came Artists and Models, one of the last joint Martin & Lewis enterprises, in which Shirley ("I was a forward comedienne in a yellow sunsuit") distinguished herself chiefly by becoming the first performer ever to steal a scene...
Four obstacles hamper attainment of goals. The professors cited "grinding" poverty, illiteracy, a shortage of trained people, and rapid population growth as limitations to the development of these nations...
Instinctively looking for something solid to lean on, he turned to his master reading list. With rapid, but controlled glances he searched for an oversight. The hunt was fruitless, though, for his check, counter-check system left no room for mistakes. The blame, clearly, lay with Miss Schroeder...
...Russians have offered proposals similar to this one on several occasions in the past, they are not likely to accept it now. Almost any form of re-unification could be acceptable to the West, except one that involved the entry of Soviet troops into West Germany (Russian soldiers form rapid attachments to places they visit, and they just hate to go home). The Soviets seem to be taking the attitude of "Nobody really wants to unify Germany" and are concentrating rather on hardening and formalizing the lines that currently divide Europe...
After beginning the year with a relatively inexperienced team, including members who were playing the game for the first time, the club met encouraging success. Following an initial shut-out victory over M.I.T., the team was invited to the spring tournament in Bermuda, where two rapid shut-outs won them the American title over the defending champions from Amherst...