Word: curtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Warren P. Reese, the chief prosecutor in the Boston investigation, issued a curt "no comment" when asked what was taking so much time...
...derelict in the stream of law." Said Justice Thurgood Marshall: "We do not lightly overrule our prior constructions of federal statutes, but when our errors deny substantial federal rights... we must admit our error and correct it." The rights involved were those of former St. Louis Cardinal Outfielder Curt Flood. He had charged that baseball's "reserve clause," which binds all players to the teams that own their contracts, prevented him from freely marketing his services...
Blacks? Chicanos? Women's Liberationists? Nope. Old folks. The latest protest group making waves is a doughty band called the Gray Panthers, founded in Philadelphia by a curt, spry lady named Margaret Kuhn, 67, who definitely does not weave scatter rugs or play shuffleboard. She and five chums, all retired church workers of different denominations, set up headquarters in Philadelphia's Tabernacle Church last year. Their basic goals: to develop a new life-style and a new base for the elderly...
...thanks to our engineer..." I am that engineer. I was the butt of a lot of jokes made by Ned Martin and Curt Gowdy...
...stocks of dominant companies in small but growing industries with a low profile." Vartan also offers a collection of anecdotes about bulls and bears of the past, which his characters recount with the fervor of Hot Stove League fanatics swapping memories about Willie Mays' catches or Curt Flood's legal problems. Vartan has also unwisely included some love affairs and a subplot about Milliken's revenge on the ex-basketball player who stole his first girl. Alas, it is all too obvious that to Milliken and colleagues, such matters are distractions; the excitement of sex can never...