Word: briskly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glimpse or a snapshot of the most-discussed, most controversial Frenchman since General Charles de Gaulle. Mendès-France had been characterized variously as a fickle Gallic opportunist and as a pin-striped Savonarola who preached hard truths. Preparing to return to France this week, the brisk little Premier had not settled that argument. Administration officials were impressed-but they still had reservations about Pierre Mendès-France...
...lower and longer than before, with Plymouth's new V-8 h.p. boosted to 157 and Dodge's to 193. Lincoln also showed off its 1955 model, sporting king-sized horizontal grilles and twin exhaust vents in the rear bumpers. Throughout the industry, sales were so brisk that some dealers have taken more orders for new cars in the past month than they had sold in the preceding twelve months...
...have to wait until Saturday before I decide on Meigs," Jordan said after yesterday's brisk workout. Meigs dressed for the light drill. "I'll see the complete medical report tomorrow," Jordan said. "Anthony will probably be in there to begin with." Jim Anthony weighs 190 pounds and has played second to Meigs all season...
...rainmaker. When Playwright Nash is chronicling the family affairs of the Currys-the amours of a lively young oaf, the wrangles and tangles over getting Lizzie hitched-or when Lizzie herself mimics the wiles of the gals who know how to lasso men, the play has a brisk air and an engagingly humorous smack. And as Lizzie, Geraldine Page plays with charm and verve, and exhibits an unexpected comic gusto. It is popular stuff, and deservedly popular...
...echoes all over the world. In Japan, singers eagerly mimic Ella Fitzgerald while dancers gyrate in the "Fallaway Twist" and the "Natural Hover Whisk." Scandinavia has a local growth of "cool" jazz, and France has an unquenchable thirst for le jazz hot. In Britain, shops are doing brisk business in the "GENUINE 'Mr. B.' Shirt with its wide roll collar as worn by the Famous American Singing Star BILLY ECKSTINE." The Communists are paying their own kind of compliment: in the East German town of Aue last week, Red police jailed members of the "Manhattan Club" for tossing...