Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quick Change. In Chicago, Diaper Deliveryman Irving Zafran explained to police that he had been robbed of his money and his pants, and that was why he was walking the streets in diapers...
...late President Manuel Roxas refused their demands, unseated seven Congressmen sympathetic to the Huks. The Philippines' fat, hard-driving new President Elpidio Quirino thought he would change all that. For two years no high government official had entered Huk territory without a formidable escort. Quirino made a quick but thorough tour of the disturbed areas, without fanfare and with no other vehicle than his own sleek Packard. In broiling La Paz, he spotted a stooped little man whom he himself, when Secretary of the Interior, had discharged as mayor (for insubordination) twelve years before. From...
Equitable could take over the airline if it wanted to. T.W.A. could get no more help from outside sources; Principal Stockholder Howard Hughes did not intend to put in any more cash. Warned Pierson: only a quick RFC loan of $10,000,000 could save the line...
...quite all: a thousand yards up the road was a Russian outpost. Through field glasses, the Americans watched the Russians watching them through glasses of their own. As the U.S. party waited in the hot sun, some Russians fired a few quick bursts from an automatic weapon. Some of the Americans flexed for a dive to cover. Then they checked: this was only target practice...
...much funny business does go on? Often, the jockey and the horse he is to ride have never met before. The trainer, who has a disillusioned parent's knowledge of the horse's habits and possibilities, gives the jockey a quick fillin, and tells him how to ride the race. Once on the track, the jockey has, like the soldier, the privilege of disregarding instructions and taking...