Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Buckley quickly assembled his team and threw a quick pass over Beatrice's head in the end zone to stop the clock. But Penn defensive back Tony Liberatore, possessed by some strange demon, interfered with Beatrice and Harvard got the ball at the Penn one-yd. line with five seconds...
Against the Tar Heels, Judge started in goal and was tested almost right from the start, as North Carolina scored only four minutes into the game to grab a quick 1-0 lead...
That order, followed by the ritual on the mosque balcony, made possible the first step in the hostages' long, still treacherous journey home. Iran demanded a quick U.S. reply to the conditions set by the Majlis. Administration experts, however, were not about to speed up their painstaking consideration of the Iranian demands. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie warned that "the process . . . will require time, patience and diplomacy...
...that Reagan would blow up the world. Even if the viewer knows it is a commercial, the image men expect the subliminal "actuality" to linger. So widespread is this practice that NBC Nightly News, in the election's final week, put together a cutesie "news" item, with a quick succession of voters, each saying, "I'm undecided"; "I'm undecided." Even the devices of parody news had become a part of real news...
...experiment of the last century, conducted primarily in the United States, has been to see if we could keep the wave from crashing, somehow moderate its peak or build up its base so that it never hits shore. Americans, in 1980, have given up on that experiment, which demands quick analysis and dramatic, constant change, with hardly a look back. It is unlikely that we will renew the quest before scarcity hits America as more than just lines on charts...