Word: briskly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With proper punctilio, the presidential physician, Major General Howard Snyder, diagnosed Ike's ailment as not a "cold" at all but a mild case of tracheitis, i.e., inflammation of the windpipe, accompanied by persistent coughing. Ike picked up his trouble, said Snyder, while standing for hours in the brisk and breezy weather of Inauguration Day last month reviewing the inaugural parade. Not even Georgia's warm sunshine had burned it off. As a precautionary measure, Ike slipped off to Walter Reed Army Hospital the day after his TV speech on Israel to get X rays of his sinuses...
Among oilmen, everyone blamed everyone else. Still fighting its brisk intramural war, the Texas Railroad Commission, which controls 45% of all U.S. production and grimly guards the interests of small independent producers, blamed the major companies for the industry's troubles. Texas independents called angrily for major refiners to 1) cut back their imports of Venezuelan crude oil, thus making that oil available for direct shipment abroad, and 2) reduce refinery runs, to make even more crude available for shipment abroad. Furthermore, said the independents, refiners should change their entire historic pattern of refining oil: they should crack less...
Demand for new cars was so brisk that there were already shortages of many models. Henry Ford said that his new Mercury "has stimulated unprecedented customer demand which cannot be met for some considerable period of time despite rapidly increasing rates of production." As a result, Ford was upping its goal from 28% to 31.5% of the 1957 market...
...quite lacks distinction, Bells comes off very nicely at its own Broadway level. Once started, it keeps moving; the tone is gay and good-natured, Jerome Robbins' staging is brisk, the Comden-Green lyrics are sprightly, the Jule Styne tunes are often schmalzy, and now and then rousing. And to put first things last, there is a heaping portion of Judy Holliday...
Next morning, surprisingly brisk and bright-eyed, he turned up at his office for the first time in a fortnight. Ben-Gurion drafted replies to Eisenhower and Bulganin. Asked how he felt, he grunted: "I have no time to feel ill." He called in leaders of all political parties except the Communists to tell them that the U.N. and the great powers were "not content with a mere cease-fire...