Word: crispness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Worth ever passed around copies of a mysterious nine-page document, which summed up the rumor-ridden case against the B-36? Yes, Worth admitted frankly, he had "Where did you get this document from?" Vinson demanded. Replied Worth in a crisp, calm voice: "I wrote it." Three wire-service reporters dashed for the door...
...Meeting. Handa engineered a meeting with the founder of the new religion, moonfaced Zenjiro Nagumo, a sleek, smooth-tongued evangelist who spiced his exhortations with crisp English phrases, Mohammedan aphorisms and quotations from the Buddhist sutras. "Here," said Handa breathlessly, "is a man after my own heart. He has faith...
...more typical of the 220 artists represented were two local landscapists whose work changes not a whit from year to year: Dean Fausett (TIME, Aug. 22) and Luigi Lucioni. Their crisp, slick pictures of red barns, cows, birches and green pastures were echoed with varying success from wall to wall, making an exhibition steeped in milk and spinach, the way the customers liked it. (The exhibiting artists sold $10,000 worth of pictures at last year's show, might do as well this time...
...crisp moviemaking that follows is the work of Producer Anthony (Quartet) Darnborough and Director Terence Fisher. Taking a loosely knit story, they have tightened it stitch by stitch with skillful timing, intelligent camera work and imaginative sound effects to produce a superior suspense film. Most suspenseful sequence: the SS general slowly stalking a victim in a twilight forest while the sound track listens with hair-raising patience to the chirp of crickets, a night bird, and the final telltale crack of a breaking twig...
...wages and pensions before Harry Truman's steel fact-finding board. In Manhattan's federal court house last week, it was management's turn. Up before the three-man board stood Inland Steel Co.'s tall, square-jawed President Clarence B. Randall. In crisp words he made the steelmen's case against the theory of wage-fixing by government. Said...