Word: briskly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...muzzle of the gun of Athlone and the gun fired into the Pope's belly, and the Pope into the Devil's belly, and the Devil into Hell, and the door locked and the key in an Orangeman's pocket; and may we never lack a brisk Protestant boy to kick the arse of a Papist...
...book takes detours of recollection through World War II and the moral agonies of the French Resistance. In fact, Vercors touches on enough material for a 600-page chronicle. Yet he has chosen to tell his story with unleavened haste in a brisk series of interviews between patient and analyst. In art as in life, the device frequently proves a chore...
...Aircraft Corp., when the Senate by a vote of 49-48 approved an Administration-backed $250 million federal loan to the ailing company. That saved an estimated 60,000 jobs in the depressed aerospace industry. Before the week was out, lines formed again in Burbank restaurants; banks reported a brisk business in traveler's checks. But in another aerospace center. Seattle, the gloom only deepened when the Nixon Administration refused to distribute surplus food commodities in the city because it already had a food-stamp program in operation. While some of the needy in Seattle marched and picketed, others...
...even the most portable television set. The book is easy to operate and almost never needs repair. It functions at all altitudes and particularly well at sea level, where sand, salt air and suntan lotions have no adverse effects on its performance. These two suitable-for-summer novels are brisk, undemanding and unoffensive, except possibly to cautious Washington bureaucrats, Chinese Communists, members of the Italian-American Civil Rights League or Hungarians overly sensitive to the revolving-door joke (they go in behind you, but come out in front...
...forth between themselves," snorts Fischer. "If I win, they'll be the first to push for an annual championship arrangement." ··· When members of the American Bar Association traveled to England to hold their annual meeting in London's Westminster Hall, haberdashers had a brisk run on cutaway coats and striped trousers. British courtroom fashions differ markedly from American ones. An eye catching picture neatly captured that difference: there was America's bareheaded Chief Justice Warren E. Burger straining in ear-cupped intensity to hear speeches, while the British Lord Chancellor, Lord Hailsham...