Word: curtly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hunter & Hunted. Daughter Grace is a cowed, bloodless spinster who lavishes her love on brother Arthur, a Christlike embodiment of human goodness, an unambitious whittler of 40 who won't shoot a gun. Riding roughshod over the entire family is another son, Curt, a hard-bodied, dead-shot, ambitious, bully who loves hunting and the kill. On the morning the story opens, he is consumed by two desires: to track down the destructive mountain lion at large among the Bridges cattle; to seduce Gwen, the fiancee of brother Harold...
...Navy's postwar battle with the Air Force ended abruptly last week, with the airmen slow-rolling overhead in triumphant victory. Less than a week after the centerplates had been dropped into the keel of the 65,000-ton supercarrier United States, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson issued a curt order "discontinuing construction of the vessel . . . at the least possible cost to the Government."" The decision meant only one thing: from now on the Air Force will take care of long-range strategic bombing; the Navy will be. held to the job of keeping the overseas supply lines open...
...likely to soar to $100 million and the union could make more money by putting it out in bank loans than by drawing interest on it as a deposit. But when newsmen asked Lewis if he was now a banker, all they got was a faraway look and a curt: "No comment...
Times are still difficult in the Far East and Pacific areas and TLI is accustomed to receiving curt communications like the one from longtime Subscriber C. L. Davar, of Pach-marhi, Central India, which began: "Re: change of address due to Punjab massacre . . ." For many of our subscribers in China, a change of address is now out of the question and communications like the following have been coming to us: "Unfortunately, the Communists are approaching my native city (Wuchang), and an iron curtain will soon be tightly drawn between us and the West. American publications, especially, will be prohibited...
...apparently the revolution had outgrown Mother Strong. Last week New York's Daily Worker glowingly observed that for her reporting on China, 63-year-old Anna Louise Strong really deserved the Pulitzer Prize. Four days later, the Kremlin made a curt announcement: "The notorious agent and American journalist, A. L. Strong . . . was arrested by organs of the state security on Feb. 14. Miss Strong is incriminated in espionage and subversive activities against the Soviet Union...