Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acted as paterfamilias. His determinedly brisk voice betrayed him a few times, but the occasional hesitation only added to the power of his eulogy. "He loved life completely and lived it intensely," Ted said, in a reading that was unusual for a Roman Catholic funeral. Frequently using Bobby's own words, Ted concluded with the lines adapted from George Bernard Shaw that Bobby used to end many of his own speeches: "Some men see things as they are and say 'Why?' I dream things that never were and say 'Why not?' " The service also showed ecumenical and modernist influences...
Untroubled by modern cancer research, many undergraduates smoked Murads, "the Turkish cigarette." Crisp Arrow collars did a brisk business around the Square at 20 cents each, two for 35 cents, three for 50 cents. Max Keezer proclaimed "Old clothes wanted--will call at your room day or evening at your pleasure...
...TALKED TOO MUCH, by Amelia Elizabeth Walden (Westminster; $3.75). A brisk spy yarn, set in the Middle East, in which the double martini is replaced by "a fine towering strawberry parfait...
...Angeles' Don Burt, who was voted best horse judge in the U.S. last year. "As we get more citified, there's more demand for release, for open spaces. Now that people can afford horses, it's bound to grow." Increasingly, families are discovering that a brisk morning canter is not only fine exercise; it also opens up new country-even in relatively built-up areas...
...Charles Atlas, Heinz baked beans, Medac acne salve and Odorono deodorant. Once that's out of the way, the boys get down to music with their hard-rock top seller, I Can See for Miles; I Can't Reach You, a tightly vocalized rock piece with a brisk tambourine; and Armenia City in the Sky, a sprightly mind excursion with soft feedback and subtle imagery. Unfortunately, to get to these pleasantries, the listener has to put up with...