Word: briskly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mayor of one of the world's most polyglot cities, New York's Robert F. Wagner decided it would be a good idea -and possibly good politics-to make a brisk good-will tour of some of the mother countries of his constituents. Most of the homelands were happy to have him (all but France agreed to foot his expenses), and early this month the hail-fellow mayor and his blonde wife were off. By last week the Wagners were the most talked-about Americans abroad, from Dublin to Tel Aviv...
...doors opened, flashbulbs flared and newsmen were toppled in the rush. Despite 40 hours without sleep. Reuther radiated his usual brisk, cold-shower glow. He praised Ford's plan for a modified G.A.W. and, after a night's sleep, tackled General Motors. Every day, flanked by U.A.W. Vice President John Livingston and Negotiator Irving Bluestone. Reuther marched into Detroit's G.M. building for bargaining sessions in the big fifth-floor conference room. Late each night they left again with no word of progress. G.M. Negotiator Louis Seaton, director of labor relations, printed and passed...
...Behind a brisk barrage from 105-mm field guns, Diem's nationalists, led by a 27-year-old colonel, stormed three Hoa Hao headquarters, forcing the chocolate-colored Mekong River, skittering black pigs and yellow dogs along with the scurrying Hoa Hao. The nationalists lost 40 killed and wounded, but the show was soon over. Only a few hours after the Diem barrage began, one-third of the Hoa Hao laid down their arms and Commander Ba Cut fled for the hills...
...freely is bound to miss the mark now and then. Siegfried's essays on American economics seem obvious or dated; his discourses on politics are marred by errors of a sort that never appeared in America Comes of Age. Yet, minor inaccuracies notwithstanding, he can hit off a brisk two-page thumbnail of F.D.R. with a degree of objectivity difficult for an American to attain. France's No. 1 living authority on the U.S. has written the sort of Socratic book about America that, he would argue, America itself cannot easily produce...
During the brisk, busy week in Washington, the President greeted France's ex-President and Madame Vincent Auriol in his best French, spoke to the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters, shook hands with 900 disabled veterans, breakfasted with 18 Republican women politicians. He also: EURJ Told Republicans at a $25-a-plate dinner, "I am so proud of being a member of the Republican Party ... We are not trying to go back to the horsecars; we are not trying to fly to Mars." ^f Golfed with two Augusta Masters Tournament winners, Gary Middlecoff and Byron Nelson. When...