Word: succinctly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Royals (record: 50-53) play on national television. "I'm disappointed," said Reds President Dick Wagner, "that baseball put marketing and merchandising ahead of tradition." Baltimore Orioles Owner Edward Bennett Williams, whose team sat out the playoffs, while five teams with worse records got into them, was more succinct: "The whole season was a terrible disaster...
...instant before it happened, one camera's eye caught a tableau that might serve as the late 20th century's most succinct text on the metaphysics of terrorism. There, on a mellow May afternoon at St. Peter's Square, beneath the encircling Bernini columns, the most vigorously gregarious of Popes rides slowly through a sea of tourists and pilgrims. It is a rite of sweet human communion. The Pope reaches out for babies in the crowd. He gently blesses the faces that give back a radiant daze of whatever it is that they...
Sister Jeanne Gallo, who visited El Salvador and now publicizes human rights violations in that country is more succinct: "It's their word against ours...
...intention of the History Department that sophomore tutorial be a place where students are introduced to the variety of historical problems and methods in areas where resources permit this to be done in a succinct and satisfying way and under the guidance of teachers who have both professional competence and genuine interest in what they are teaching. Certainly neither the Department nor, I am confident, the vast majority of Harvard undergraduates want the tutorial to become an occasion for ideological indoctrination. If this is what the author is suggesting, then he should be ashamed of himself. Steven Ozment Head Tutor
Paper Money is clear, succinct and consistently engaging about the evolution of this embarrassing and potentially bank-breaking situation. The book is quite simply the best exposition of the subject available to the general reader. This is not surprising since Goodman, a former magazine journalist, financial editor and investment manager, writes about economics as a lively art, not as a dismal science. Here he is pondering the Big Bang theory of real estate: "Why should bricks and mortar, wood and paint, increase in price even faster than inflation? It is because not only is the currency diminishing in its worth...