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...weak, scrawny, tweed-clad willow took his bottom end of the desk, and tried to follow my brisk pace up the stairs...
More interesting is Western Avenue, which runs from Central Square straight to the Charles. The neighborhood it bisects is Riverside, one of Cambridge's heavily black communities. When it's hot, people are out all over; Donnell's Store does brisk business in ice, soda pop and ice cream despite a sign admonishing "No Checks Accepted Unless You Are 99 With Your Mother 109." Further down, near the river, you may find a tent crusade. All this summer, the Reverend Ezra kept his congregation under the canvas with his message that riches lead to misery. "He don't own that...
Across the country, many stores are holding heavily promoted early summer sales to lure economy-minded customers. Some Chicago stores, for example, are marking down lawn furniture, usually a brisk seller at this time of year, by 30% to 40%. Worried retailers are either cutting or holding back on fall orders...
Because of the cracks, some apartments were as cold as 45 degrees when the brisk wind hit the wall. When the wind did not, occupants "boiled" because of the overheating provided to compensate for the wall's heat-leak...
...notion of a Chrysler-Volkswagen combination seemed plausible, at least superficially, because of the ties that exist between the companies. They are currently renewing a contract under which Volkswagen has been supplying 300,000 engines annually for Chrysler's Omni and Horizon subcompacts, its only two brisk sellers. The two companies also have jointly run an auto plant in Brazil, and Volkswagen makes its popular American Rabbits in a Pennsylvania plant that once belonged to Chrysler...