Word: succinctly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rectitude that Falwell is administering at PTL has spilled over into his own Lynchburg ministry. Last month the organization published a rare 16-page report that included a succinct two-page financial summary. For the year ending June 1986, the document noted, ministry revenues totaled $84.1 million and expenses ran to $82.9 million. Total assets were valued at $91.5 million, while liabilities totted up to $56.5 million. However, Falwell would provide TIME with no audited, detailed financial statements for the ministry...
...this happening to you, ask questions about the job they have available, and discuss your qualifications for it. Don't be passive. Don't answer questions in monosyllables. Be informative, direct, and succinct in your responses. Steer the interviewer into discussion of your interest in the company...
...like Emily and Irma live by shibboleths learned in early youth: sleep with no woman and damn few men; he who rides a tiger must never get off; and, as the title indicates, he who sees the last blossom on the plum tree must pick it. Shakespeare was more succinct: ripeness is all, and so it proves with Emily. After meeting Carlo's ancient father, she is momentarily ( transformed into a radiant ideal: "beautiful, charming, intelligent, loving, and the perfect future Principessa Pontevecchio." Irma is another matter: abandoned by Charlie, she becomes one more foolish dowager...
...wallets. The model for the romantic doctor in W. Somerset Maugham's story The Happy Man was typical. The author had profited handsomely from his tale, complained the original, but where was the fee for the man who had lived it? A Swazi warrior named M'hlopekazi was more succinct. He was the inspiration for Umslopogaas, the intrepid tribesman of King Solomon's Mines. The hunting knife that H. Rider Haggard had presented was all very well. But, M'hlopekazi protested vainly, there was something an African guide would find far more valuable in the veld: royalties...
...Ransom, a private investigator, he is direct, foul-mouthed, and undeniably charming. Just as Jagged Edge threatens to take itself too seriously, Loggia breezes in with Sam's own perverse and sanely brusque opinion of the murderer and his crime: "Fuck him," he comments, dismissing in one succinct phrase every emotionally contrived moment in the movie...