Word: briskly
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...seller--in the U.S. alone, there are 750,000 copies in print. The story of a young girl with a powerful imagination and of the terrible consequences that occur when it's misused, it was a nuanced psychological study, a powerful war drama and, finally, by way of a brisk twist at the end, a devastating moral tale...
...brisk round of doubles play provided a good omen for the remainder of the match, with the Crimson sweeping the three encounters. The teams of Durkin and Anderson and Wang and Mukundan clinched the point with wins at the No. 2 and 3 slots, 8-2 and 8-1 respectively...
Harvard (12-6-2, 11-1-1 ECAC) scored all of its goals on the power play in a brisk 4-0 dismissal of the Catamounts (5-19-3, 3-10-0) at the Gutterson Fieldhouse in Burlington...
...huge hit in Thailand, Ong-Bak generated brisk box office in Asia, then in Europe after French auteur Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita, The Fifth Element) bought the rights to the film, trimmed a few minutes and slapped on a new music track. Even before its February opening in 20 U.S. cities, the movie has sparked a rabid cult, thanks to festival showings, bootleg DVD imports and Internet downloading...
There could be rain in the forecast on Titan--huge torrents of it, swelling rivers and filling seas. But nothing's likely to grow on the surface of that distant moon of Saturn. The temperature averages a brisk -290 degrees F, and the rain is not water but liquid methane. Those are just some of the findings of the remarkable Huygens spacecraft, which landed on Titan two weeks ago. The probe took seven years to fly to the Saturnian system and lived, as planned, for only 70 min. on Titan's plains. But the data it radioed home...