Word: curtly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nellie" Richardson retaliated with a curt order: hereafter anyone who applies for, issues, serves, or accepts a plea for a writ of habeas corpus will be subject to a $5,000 fine, five years in jail, or both. This "anyone" obviously meant only one man: Judge Metzger, who was also warned to drop the contempt case forthwith...
Deer's demise was announced in a curt News box. The paper explained that it was forced to reduce editorial and advertising content because WPB had curtailed newsprint. Therefore, Deathless Deer must go. With her, in the issue of July 19, went Embarrassing Moments, Beauty Answers, Love Answers and the stockmarket column. The fact that the News had recently added a three-page classified ad section was not mentioned...
Private Club. The Government was curt and clear about the restraints it saw in A. P.'s setup. It asked the court to order A. P. 1) to remove the bylaw which prohibits member papers from giving their own local news to anyone but A. P. ; 2) to annul the bylaws restricting membership in A.P.; 3) to cancel the contract which gives A. P. and Canadian Press the exclusive right to each other's news; 4) to get rid of Wide World Photos, whose picture service is available only to A. P. members...
General Forrest's name was carried down through father and son to his great-grandson, Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Last week, in a curt communique, the Army announced that Brigadier General Forrest was missing from a raid over Kiel. When last seen, his bomber was spiraling down, still under control, but with one motor smoking and its tail half shot off. Eight parachutes were seen to drop from it; one might have been General Forrest's. If he was not among those saved a great name had died...
Franklin Roosevelt had a chipper, assured look. Speaking in short, clipped sentences, curt as a communique, the U.S. Commander in Chief* informed the press (two and a half hours after reporters heard the news by radio) that Pantelleria had fallen. Then he turned to his typed, pink-paper notes, suddenly abandoned war talk for a suave, new role: Chief of United Nations Propaganda...