Word: brisking
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...dramatic moment. Thailand had surrendered to the Japanese. In the Thailand Legation in Washington the brisk, round-faced Minister, Mom Raja-wongse Seni Pramoj, had to announce whether or not he surrendered...
Reading these lines from Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry Ford, brisk, smiling and 78, gave newspapermen his views on the post-war world. If it was not surprising to find Henry Ford quoting Tennyson, it was surprising to find him urging the U.S. not to wait until war's end, but to act for federation...
...Brisk, skeptical, pedantic Mr. Messersmith was a school superintendent for 14 years before he entered the foreign service, then started the hard way as a consul in Canada. A stern crusader for the democracies, he was in Berlin as Consul General when the Nazis came to power. U.S. citizens in Berlin liked him because he was not afraid to talk tough when the rights of a U.S. citizen were infringed...
...then, as the eight took a brisk workout down to the Riverside Boat Club, his method of handling an eight became vividly evident. As Bolles turned his interest from one part of the shell to another, he used one part of the shell it another, he used the searchlight with which his coaching launch is equipped to advantage, stopping at one man for a moment, moving on to another, sweeping back to the rudder post to see what "check" the shell was developing, and then back again to the eight be-sweatered sweepswingers...
...some of the fiercest temperature figures recorded in the U.S. From the Badlands to the eastern lakes a winter cold spell may mean 46° below, an August afternoon 115° above. Even on days like that, when a lot of people in South Dakota are feeling poorly, brisk Mrs. McNeil puts in her eight 'hours at the microphone...