Word: briskly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cast away" a chance to negotiate an end to the Viet Nam war early in 1967-has recorded almost 40,000 sales. That's not yet sufficient to recoup the advance of about $150,000 that Doubleday & Co. paid to Kennedy, but still it seems to be a brisk beginning...
...fault, in all fairness, is not his. His settings are as novelistically vivid as ever. The action is brisk: scenes from the War of 1812 as a curtain rais er; no-quarter combat with pirates in Caribbean and African waters; amphibious derring-do during the Mexican War; for a climax, the Commodore's steaming into Edo Bay and dramatically opening Japan to the West...
...jacket, was the man who took over from Douglas MacArthur after President Truman fired the aging hero. (As a younger generation of hawks and doves now scarcely remember, MacArthur had publicly criticized the President for not allowing him to strike back at Red China across the Yalu.) In a brisk personal and military memoir, Ridgway, who is now 72 and retired, reviews the U.S.'s first major confrontation with Communism in Asia...
NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, by Robert K. Massie. Although his brisk prose and sentimental observations will undoubtedly nettle historians. Author Massie admirably humanizes the tragic couple who presided as semidivine personages over the last days of the Russian Empire...
...Brandy is de bottles on de shelf," said Hark. He began to scramble to his feet. "I fix de brandy fo' you, massah." But again Cobb motioned him back with a brisk wave of his hand.... Something about the man offended me, filled me with the sharpest displeasure, and it wasn't until he limped unsteadily past us through the crackling brown patch of weeds toward the cider press, saying not another word, that I realized it wasn't the man himself who annoyed me so much as it was Hark's manner in his presence--the unspeakable bootlicking Sambo...