Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Always quick to recover, the President tanned rapidly, began to rib reporters at their golf games, heckled and huzzaed in a voice that rang through the little valley. Surest sign of his returning health and high spirits: he made no squawks about their handling of news...
Hungary. Searchlights swept the skies of Budapest and air-raid protection squads in steel helmets patrolled the streets. The French Legation hastily removed important files to Belgrade and a speedy truck stood ready in the courtyard of the British Legation for a quick trip to the frontier. Believing that a former archenemy might have sufficient interest in balking Germany to the extent of lending at least moral support, Hungarian statesmen also discussed the best way of approaching the Soviet Union, hoping to ward off a German invasion that will certainly come to the landlocked Magyars if Hitler finds himself...
...journalists address him as "Mr. Minister," enjoy equally his Martinis and his conversation. He likes to have them in Luxembourg because, if the Grand Duchy is invaded again, he wants neutral witnesses of her rape. No alarmist either, it was he who undoubtedly facilitated Reporter Casey's quick passage to the scene last week as the German Legation warned local newspapers to handle Allied news with caution, to "keep entirely to the truth-loving communiqués of the German High Command...
...Quick to attack this figure was jib-nosed John Jeremiah Pelley, president of A.A.R. Testifying before TNEC next day, he called Analyst Eastman's road-cost allocation an "astonishing assumption," defended "home owners, farmers and others who pay general taxes" against the implicit charge of paying less than their share. A.A.R.'s own conclusion: that vehicle owners should pay 75% of all road costs, Government the rest. Eastman's: "Their [the railroads'] contentions impress me as being carried to extreme limits." But Railroader Pelley also reminded his hearers why railroad and truck taxes cannot, should...
...Varsity and two Freshman eights raced over the Henley distance. Closely bunched except for the Varsity which was well ahead, the six boats finished in good time. The Jayvees led the first Freshman by a length, followed by the third and fourth varsity and the second Yardling eight in quick succession...