Word: quickened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ITALIAN director Lina Wertmuller's quasi-historical movie "Love and Anarchy" aims a lopsided shot at two rather grand targets, and barely grazes its mark. Several strong, spirited scenes create atmosphere on the fringes of the story, but Wertmuller lacks the incisive directing to quicken her abstract themes and rescue them from a trite plot and a nearly catatonic hero...
...House Judiciary Committee be gan to climb out of its rut and seemed ready to quicken the march toward impeachment. Charles Colson, a former member of Nixon's innermost circle, confessed his criminality and professed a desire to tell all that he knows about Watergate. It was revealed that a federal grand jury had named the President as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Watergate cover-up case - the first official citation of direct criminal association ever brought against a U.S. President. Adding to Nixon's judicial problems, a federal judge openly, threatened to cite him for contempt...
Custom calls for the 33 cars to line up three abreast in eleven rows, circle the track and then gradually quicken the pace for a nice orderly start. But once the winged, turbo-charged monsters come roaring down the final straightaway at 150 m.p.h., each trying to jump lanes or sneak ahead, the result is more like a motorized stampede...
University officials have called for three new procedures to quicken emergency medical aid following the November 13 death of a student in an Economics class...
...Myth" on Jobs. Connally reported that Nixon is confident that present budget and Federal Reserve monetary policies will quicken the pace of business and cut unemployment-eventually. In June, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped from 6.2% to 5.6%. But that was largely a statistical quirk, because more than the usual number of students had not yet left school to start looking for summer work. Actually, the number of unemployed Americans jumped during the month from...