Word: curtly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...satisfied in getting the Penn game televised in the Philadelphia area. He suddenly demanded that the regularly scheduled TV contest between Columbia and Princeton be piped to the Philadelphia area as well as the Penn game. "He wanted to have his cake and eat it too" is the curt way Hall summed up Murray's request. A series of violent telegrams crossed back and forth...
...TIME'S July 14 story of the Republican Convention is a case history that should be required reading for every student of government for years to come . . . Even your curt, clear, complete words were inadequate to describe the wave of disgust that swept over us when Taft made his infamous offer to return a third of the loot. The dispatch with which the convention repudiated such tactics and nominated Eisenhower was a refreshing pick...
...Curt Heinburg, economic counselor, had served as a chief in the political division under Nazi Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop. He had worked on the "solution of the Jewish problem in Serbia," i.e., had helped deport Jews to slave labor, concentration camps, or death. He resigned after the investigations began...
...miles south of Mexico City in the state of Morelos. All the restless spouse had to do was sign a few papers, pay a registration fee ($100), and give public notice. That could be done by placing a three-line ad in a local newspaper or pinning up a curt announcement on the courthouse bulletin board...
...Philadelphia Pitcher Curt Simmons, 22, after 20 months in the Army (mainly on occupation duty in Germany), shucked off his fatigues for baseball flannel and pitched a winning seven-hitter, 8-2, against the Chicago Cubs...