Word: crisper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...journalistic experience, but swiftly proved himself to be an ingenious and resourceful executive, first as an assistant to the general manager, than as vice president, and finally, in 1935, as the paper's fourth publisher. Under his stewardship, the Times brightened its pages with more pictures and a crisper, more readable writing style, expanded its coverage with greater emphasis on personality studies and news analysis. He allowed his editors wide latitude in day-to-day operations, engaged in debate rather than ex-cathedra dicta to implement his ideas, delighted in writing long letters to the editor under...
...tried writing with her left hand without success. In desperation, she turned to an electric typewriter. "But it was as if the typewriter were whining for the next sentence," she says. Finally she tried a regular typewriter, and the book flowed. "Mr. Highet says that this book is crisper and more concise because of the typewriter," she says triumphantly. And perhaps he is right...
...last-minute heroics and the large score, the Crimson was not overly-impressive. The line play will have to be crisper, and the offense more imaginative, when the Ivy League season commences againnst powerful Cornell next week...
...cars designed above all for economy, Europe's automakers are now copying Detroit in an effort to get their customers to trade up to more expensive cars. The bait is a whole new line of small cars that feature such attractions as more lavish interiors, increased acceleration and crisper styling, and cost $200 to $300 more than economy models...
Request for Boxer. Sunday evening, only some eight hours after Kennedy had given the final go-ahead, the expedition in the first dark was creeping toward the Cuban shore. In Bissel's office, there was a call on the White House line. It was Bundy, being even crisper than usual: The B-26s were to stand down, there was to be no air strike in the morning, this was a presidential order. Rusk was now acting for the President in the situation. Bissell was stunned. He and CIA Deputy Director General Charles Cabell, an experienced air man, went together...