Word: curtly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Forster spoke out to the London Magazine on the subject of aging: "I reserve the right to be frightened at the thought of my own death and to mourn the deaths of those whom I have loved or haven't even known. The present century has become too curt over bereavement just as the 19th century was too expansive over it." Who really knew how to mourn? "The Greeks. They wept, they recovered, they recalled." What is old age? "Both by its practitioners and by its observers, it is approached too rhetorically and on too sustained a note...
State's LeMay turned out to be a powerful combination. Today, when White spends most of his time in Joint Chiefs planning and budget sessions, it is Curt LeMay who is often operating head of the Air Force -and, good soldier that he is, he operates in White...
This year's team will be formed around three returning lettermen: Captain Don Stephenson, Al Arkley, and Pete Berle. Other likely prospects are Curt Beebe, Jim Breaksted, Charlie Stewart, and Bill Niemi. Eight will be chosen to form the team...
...avoid was under way. So lengthy was the debate that Khrushchev and other Presidium members who had accepted invitations to an Iranian embassy reception were twice obliged to postpone the hour of their arrival. When they finally did show up, all that came out of the Presidium was the curt announcement that Zhukov had been replaced as Defense Minister by Marshal Rodion Malinovsky. The Tass account of Zhukov's arrival shrank to three lines in next morning's edition of Pravda...
...CinemaScope screen, bottoms up and bare as a censor's eyeball. In the hard sun of the Riviera her round little rear glows like a peach, and the camera lingers on the subject as if waiting for it to ripen. Pretty soon an aging lecher (Curt Jurgens) appears, and the two converse with only a sheet between them...