Word: curtly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knit but the car swayed and jerked; I tried to read-the paper jiggled with the wheels; the roadbed was in awful condition. That night I read TIME, and there in print was everything I had experienced to New York and back again. Rough riding, dirty aisles, filthy windows, curt conductor, and no drinking water...
...will be dropped from Philadelphia's heavily traveled Main Line and other suburban areas; long-distance service in & out of Pittsburgh will be reduced by seven trains, and cuts will be made on trains going into Chicago, St. Louis, Baltimore and Buffalo. The Pennsy's explanation was curt and businesslike: it is losing money on passenger traffic and thinks that the way to cut its losses is to cut out money-losing runs...
...spring of 1947, London Drama Critic James Agate found himself in a familiar condition: up to his neck in work, up to his ears in debt. The British revenue office sent him a "curt communication saying that unless I find ?940 within a week everything in my flat except the bed I lie on will be taken away...
...Oughterard to Letterfrack," shrills Mrs. Colgan, the old lady who introduces Recruit Madden to the rebel army just in time for him to get in a few licks in the Easter Rising. And sure enough, Madden quickly proves himself the sort of character who looks his best in very curt sentences, e.g., "Madden floored the bricklayer with a right...
Philadelphia won last year, but it took a lot of luck and a very fast start. Curt Simmons is gone, and Bob Miller and Bubba Church are question marks. Robin Roberts, Jim Konstanty, and Ken Heintzelmen give them a strong enough staff to make up for a weak-hitting infield...