Word: curtly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Negro, says Zoologist Curt Stern of the University of California in Scientific American, is doomed to disappear through racial diffusion. As a group of mankind, American Negroes are relatively new. They have existed for only 300 years, and are already notably mixed. Dr. Stern figures from their blood-group makeup that about two-thirds of their genetic material (heredity) comes from Africa, about one-third from Europe. More than 78% of American Negroes have some non-African genes; by 1980 there will be hardly a single U.S. Negro of pure African descent...
...lift," he said finally. "I don't see how you ever got to be a sergeant handling a wrench that way." The man in overalls was General Curtis E. LeMay, SAC's commander (who is actually a first-class mechanic). By last week one phase of Curt LeMay's passion for sports cars had been noted and frowned upon in Washington...
Congressman Scrivner, who drives an Oldsmobile 98 (his top speed: 65 m.p.h.) had already won his campaign: while the investigation was still on, the Air Force had quietly dropped the finish flag on the races, canceling all that had not been contracted for. Curt LeMay had long since sold his Cad-Allard and was driving in a more sedate sports car of his own building-an old Indianapolis frame, a sleek plastic body, a souped-up Cadillac engine with Hydra Matic transmission...
...Dean), ballplayers generally are a reticent lot, given less to the clubhouse high jinks than the sports pages suggest, given more to the somber dollars-and-cents business of winning ball games than the hero worshipers like to believe. The high-riding New York Giants of 1954 cling in curt, almost surly fashion to the stereotype-they get together in clubhouse and ballpark not to win friends but to win ball games. Even on the crest, as they were while clouting the Brooklyns six straight in a pair of recent series, the Giants were in no mood for skylarking...
Terrorist killings followed. The body of Alfredo Abularach Sabagg, a salesman who had been inexplicably arrested and jailed a few days before, was returned to his family with the curt explanation: "Suicide." A post-mortem showed one arm broken, the sole of one foot burned, general bruises, and a bullet hole in the back of his head. Secretary of State Dulles spoke out bluntly against this "reign of terror" in a press conference. President Eisenhower added the weight of his disapproval and deep regret...