Word: briskly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Regretted, in a brisk reply to Nikita S. Khrushchev's letter of last month, Russia's cold shoulder of the slow negotiation sessions with Western ambassadors in Moscow on an agenda for a possible summit meeting, patiently pledged to keep on trying to find ways to get along with the Soviets...
...months had Calcutta's drowsy Government Book Depot, which handles the dreariest of official publications, experienced such a brisk burst of activity. No sooner had the first 500 copies of the central government's Act to Suppress Immoral Traffic arrived than a flood of customers snapped them up. The act, designed to outlaw brothels and subject pimps to severe punishments, was passed in 1956; but Parliament delayed enforcement so that India's prostitutes could find other ways to make a living and state governments would have time (though few bothered) to build "rehabilitation homes." Last week, just...
...little man, full of vibrant nervous energy." Lord Randolph feared nobody-least of all Liberal Leader William Ewart Gladstone, whose fondness for the healthy exercise of axing trees he excoriated with pungent brevity: "The forest laments, in order that Mr. Gladstone may perspire." Other of his brisk remarks have passed into the language, e.g., his description of snobbish businessmen as "lords of suburban villas . . . owners of vineries and pineries"; of Gladstone, "the Old Man in a hurry." At 37, Lord Randolph was Leader of the House of Commons, boss of the Treasury ("the youngest since Pitt"), and husband...
...minute movie of America the Beautiful projected on a 360° screen; the IBM 305 Ramac, which produces answers in ten languages in ten seconds; a set of U.S. voting machines. The pavilion's transplanted "corner drug store" and restaurant sold hot dogs, hamburgers, milk shakes at a brisk rate, chiefly to Americans...
Amid signs of recession, paradoxical streaks of prosperity show up. Beauty parlors and landscaping firms are thriving. Car sales are radically down, but boat sales are radically up. Movie attendance is skimpy, but the Tigers report brisk preseason sales of baseball tickets...