Word: crisps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crisp and smiling in the olive drab uniform of a Soviet air force major, Yuri Gagarin bounced out of an Aeroflot turbojet at London Airport to help publicize Moscow's Trade Fair, and all Britain gave him a tumultuous welcome. Thousands lined the 14-mile route into London for a look at the world's first cosmonaut, cheered and chanted "Gagarin" as his motorcade swept by. Standing in an open silver Rolls-Royce with a specially issued license plate "YG-1," Yuri waved and grinned. When he turned into Kensington High Street, the crowd broke through the police...
...Totally objective, they are as clear and crisp and perfectly shaped as icicles, as sharp as splinters of glass. Seldom if ever before has a writer been able to cut so deeply into life with the 26 carving tools of the English alphabet...
Five years, four Elizas and three Higginses ago.* My Fair Lady opened in New York. This week the show passed Oklahoma's record of 2,212 performances to become the longest run musical in Broadway history. It is still remarkably crisp, thanks to production assistants, who appear regularly in the audience, advise cast and crew when the show lags. Director Moss Hart himself rehearses every major cast change, and Authors Lerner and Loewe check in occasionally. Lady has, to date, taken in some $50.2 million -$18 million on Broadway, $15.7 million from the traveling national company. $16.5 million from...
...Sunday. It still looks and reads like the paper Joe Patterson left: full of crime, sex, human frailty and indiscretion, all jauntily regarded. But the rest of the news is in the News too. And it is still written with a skillfully crisp and colloquial flair, still gaudily bedizened by the flippest headline writers in the business (SINGER CROAKS ON HIGH c, ran above an early story about an opera star, who collapsed onstage and died in the wings). The paper is still so accurately aimed at Patterson's hand-picked target-the Manhattan subway rider-that News circulation...
...Odyssey. Robert Fitzgerald translates into the crisp, demotic argot of today the tale of wily Odysseus...