Word: curtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writes, insisting that her quarrel with the Proves is over their method, not their aim of driving the British out of Ireland. Nonetheless, Maria's defection and the vindictive wrath of the I.R.A. have effectively deprived her of the chance of living safely in her OWn Country. "Curt Prendergast
...been to admit that in 1972 the company made an illegal $55,000 contribution to President Nixon's re-election campaign. Smith showed up at his office overlooking Manhattan's East River by 8 a.m. the next morning, greeting old friends and pecking out the brief, curt notes to American executives for which he became famous. Said an official of the airline: "Employee morale took an upturn in the last 24 hours the like of which has not been seen here in years...
...CLUBHOUSE the dining room fills up with club members, USLTA officials, players in street clothes. The players stick together. The talk everywhere is tennis, but the players talk it differently than the rest. The interchangers are curt as if in code -- Connors is hot, Lutz out, Smith down, Richey tight, Ashe loose, Graebner coming back up, Alexander pushed, Reissen clutched, Sullivan is a fish, Connors is on top. It is a language that comes out of living though a life together, knowing from the inside all the levels of the game. And knowing that they all will at one time...
...Ehrlichman have merged into one formidable figure in the public mind, "This is unfair to Ehrlichman," says one who knew both well. "Ehrlichman was a good person to work with; you always got a fair hearing from him. He has a nice sense of humor and was never curt-not that Prussian image. He would sit with his feet on the desk and talk ideas. But Haldeman-well, the public image is the correct one. I've never known him to crack a joke. I've never known him to seem relaxed...
...make the case the first international feminist cause. To further it, women in five U.S. and seven foreign cities staged demonstrations on the date originally set for the trial. When 50 protesters gathered on the lawn of the Portuguese consulate in Boston, Vice Consul Carlos Nunes relayed a curt reproof from his boss, Consul General George Freitas: "The world would be a better place if each person would mind his own business." To which one woman responded, "And you are minding the business of the three Marias-which is why we are all here...