Word: brisking
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...supposed to arrive at Sanders Theatre between 7:30 and 8 this Monday for his speech on the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) College Freedom Tour, but all his publicist knows is that he’s on his way. Standing outside Sanders on a brisk, blowy night, an ACLU rep is chatting with a pair of Harvard police officers about the belated guest of honor. “He’s been through a lot, so he’s got a lot to say,” he muses, with distinctly un-Flyntlike understatement...
...courtly Lord Hutton, exemplar of the British establishment, formally ended his brisk, floodlit march into its innermost corners last week. He will not have an easy time figuring out why weapons expert David Kelly was moved to kill himself in July. A psychiatrist suggested that Kelly's public exposure - after admitting to his managers that he had talked to BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan - had caused "the severe loss of self-esteem ... from feeling that [his employers] had lost trust in him." But whatever Hutton can deduce about the anguish that Kelly took to his grave, the millions of words...
...curtain is finally lifting. Last week Seoul announced the ban would be removed on Jan. 1, 2004 (although a decision on TV shows and animated films is still pending). Culture and Tourism Minister Lee Chang Dong declared that "brisk cultural exchange between Korea and Japan is the shortcut to increasing mutual understanding...
Okhotin called the verdict, which Yakovlev delivered in a brisk monotone five hours after the appointed 10 a.m. court time, “hastily put together” and “very selective...
Okhotin called the verdict, which Yakovlev delivered in a brisk monotone five hours after the appointed 10 a.m. court time, "hastily put together" and "very selective...