Word: brisking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rest of the week was the same-nothing earthshaking, but everything brisk. The President named State Department Careerist Maxwell M. Hamilton to be Minister to Finland. He saw a long list of visitors, assured a group of Democratic and Republican women that he favors the equal-rights Constitutional amendment. Now for the outing...
...Know." Harry Truman had said: "When I have some news I'll tell you." He seemed to have meant what he said. The Truman press conferences had settled down to brisk once-a-week affairs (Roosevelt usually met the press on Tuesdays and Fridays). Otherwise, there was not enough news around the White House to make a stick on Page 8. What the First Lady and her daughter did had become nobody's business but their...
...brisk south wind was scattering tiny white clouds across the blue sky above Atsugi airfield when the first U.S. troops landed. Tall grass, dancing in the wind, cast sawtooth patterns on the ground...
Chiang Kai-shek was not on hand when Mao deplaned at Chungking. But the welcoming delegation included the Generalissimo's eldest son, brisk, Moscow-trained Chiang Ching-kuo. Someone asked Mao: "What do you think of the plane?" Said he, with noticeable lack of fervor: "Very efficient." Ambassador Hurley would not think of letting the Communist leader ride in the limousine provided by the Generalissimo. He hustled Mao into his own black Cadillac. As they drove off, the high-spirited Oklahoma diplomat, whose Choctaw war whoops are the delight of Asia, yelled to the astonished crowd: "Olive oil! Olive...
Liberally spicing their narrative with Eaton's peppery comments. Historian Louis Wright and Librarian Julia MacLeod (both of Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.) have written a brisk account of the first puny U.S. efforts to carry a big stick in world affairs. During the six rollicking years that he carried that stick, Consul Eaton had enough trouble, and made enough comments on it, to build up quite a legend...