Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Complaint. The Air Force Constellation carrying Olmstead and McKone landed at Washington in weather that surely reminded the men of their Moscow winter. But once they walked down the steps from their plane, tossed a brisk salute to President Kennedy and located their wives, snow and the cutting wind were of no concern. Oblivious to Air Force brass and Government dignitaries turned out to do them honor, both officers kissed their wives with unabashed enthusiasm. The McKones held a long, long embrace. The first kiss left a great smear of lipstick around the flyer's mouth. Connie McKone clasped...
Literary status seekers are bound to give this book a brisk under-the-counter sale. It could even be useful in the schools, if they have not entirely abandoned the study of language. More work, however, remains to be done. What can the innocent reader make of the recent literary criticism without an entry under ANGST, SYNCRETIC, AMBIVALENCE, KITSCH Or ENAGEMENT, and how is he expected to follow W. H. Auden's recent criticism without the lowdown on CHARISMA...
...domestic dramas include two adaptations from novels, All the Way Home, which transmits much of the poetry and power of James Agee's A Death in the Family, and Advise and Consent, a brisk and tense political melodrama taken from the Allen Drury bestseller. Also of note: Tennessee Williams' Period of Adjustment, a lively comedy-lecture on marital success that is forced more often than forceful...
Cambridge cab drivers reported an exremely brisk business yesterday. At one point during the day the scarcity of cabs was so great that drivers were refusing to take passengers into Boston...
...wave of new cardinals always means brisk business for Gammarelli; once his five seamstresses and one cutter, who work in two cramped rooms above the store, turned out 18 cardinal vestments at one time. To make sure all the garments conform to the church's centuries-old traditions, Gammarelli uses only the finest materials, carefully oversees the work. As a double check, he continually refers to a pattern book hand-painted in watercolors by his sister Maria...