Word: crisps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sports at the annual dinner of Washington's Touchdown Club were having too high a time to sit still for speeches. So they hoped that Illinois Freshman Senator Charles Percy, 47, would keep it crisp when he rose to deliver an encomium to Everett McKinley Dirksen, who was the club's honored guest. Like a Big Ten cheer leader, Percy waved flash cards bearing each letter of Dirksen's full name. " 'E' is for Effectiveness," he began, and proceeded to expatiate on how effective Ev is. Then: " 'V is for Valor." By the time...
...students and the grey-capped, rubber-faced, Harvard-sweatshirted newsboy man went their separate ways. The students went home and the whistling man went over to the Out of Town newsstand and bought a whole pile of fresh crisp papers to hide under his arm and disappear down the subway with. They cost ten cents each. One should always be suspicious of people wearing Harvard sweatshirts...
...addition to crackling prose of a caliber rarely heard on TV, the Xerox Corp.-sponsored program is livened by the affecting personal reminiscences of Pearl Buck, among others-and the crisp editing of David Wolper Productions...
...latest budgetary figures and policy recommendations. Moyers, working at his small electric Smith-Corona, in machine-gun bursts of 100 words per minute, translated the reports into Johnsonian prose, sending off completed portions to wherever the President happened to be at the moment. Johnson worked endlessly on the crisp, newly typed pages with his favorite soft-lead pencils...
...Three Little Pigs (1933), Disney foreshadowed the work of his full-length films. Crisp in color, jaunty in jingly music (Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?), the movie was also a significant departure in its simply stated moral theme. In Snow White, Disney and his staff met the challenge of creating believable characters. Each of the seven dwarfs, from sober-sided Doc to dim-bulb Dopey, had a distinct personality. In Cinderella, a handful of Disney creations nearly stole the show: the bloodthirsty but fatuous cat Lucifer, and the nimble mice, Jaq and Gus-Gus. Millions...