Word: briskly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sarsaparilla (a coyly satirical name for the Sydney district of Parramatta). Arthur is seen by his neighbors at the end of Terminus Road as a "dill," a "no-hoper," a "loopy," a "nut," a "mophret" (hermaphrodite), and "a dirty old man." The reader sympathizes with these brisk Aussie judgments; Arthur is indeed hard to follow as he mumbles about the place goggling at the dreary scenery or polishing that glass marble with the two spirals inside...
...some time this year. Among leading candidates are three middle-roaders: Minister of Trade and Commerce Robert Winters, 55, an old Pearson crony; Finance Minister Mitchell Sharp, 54, who engineered Canada's profitable $700 million wheat deals with Red China; and National Defense Minister Paul Hellyer, 42, a brisk administrator who has been spectacularly successful in reducing rivalries among Canada's three armed services...
Debate & Dismay. Dahood's translation, which tries to evoke the brisk, rugged quality of Hebrew poetry, is certain to cause both scholarly debate and popular dismay. Like all modern scholars, Dahood has access to more accurate manuscripts than those available to the translators of the King James version. Thus his syntax and synonyms are often radically different from what is found in the King James, and he abandons many of its most hallowed images. Gone from Psalms 23, for example, is the elegiac "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear...
Business is generally brisk. In the 1964 Crosby, Arnold Palmer dumped three balls in the drink, took nine strokes to get down on the par-three, 217-yd. 17th. In 1959, Gene Littler needed only a par five on the 535-yd. 18th to tie Art Wall for the title; he hooked his second shot into the water, wound up with a double-bogey seven. Of course, there have been days when the 18th played easier; a San Franciscan named Mat Palacio once hit a drive in the general direction of China and muttered, "Only God can save that...
...anyone still underestimated either the depth of U.S. determination or the physical dimensions of the war it was fighting in Viet Nam, McNamara's brisk recital of statistics brought both into focus. The Defense Secretary told Congressmen that U.S. forces in the war zone have been firing $210 million worth of ammunition a month. "We are preparing," said he, "to support a much higher rate...