Word: curtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people are concentrating on registration. An elaborate record-keeping system involving triplicate forms and follow-up letters and phone calls has been set up for each potential supporter contacted by volunteers. The staff is studiedly silent about Spiro Agnew, brushing aside questions about the Vice President with a curt statement: "The important thing is to re-elect the President." That Agnew's attacks on students will be a liability in campaigning among the young was underscored at a meeting of youthful Nixon supporters in Pennsylvania last week. When asked which Administration officials would be welcome campaigners, one youth replied...
...truck were three people. One of them wore the famous electric company yellow hat, which Boston TV fans have come to know through the ads the electric companies used to run on behalf of their "Big 11 Plus" power project. These ads have since been replaced by messages from Curt Gowdy, formerly our favorite Red Sox announcer in Beantown. These generally consist of Gowdy fishing downstream from a bright, clean electric plant (showing, of course, that the power companies care about fish...
Othello too hangs helplessly on the overpowering false persuasions of Pachoda's Iago. Curt Anderson is an Othello of imposing appearance but with a somewhat lesser capacity for tortured response to Iago's calculated hints. But if it weren't that Othello's peculiar virtue is trust in other men--and his peculiar vice to distrust his own feelings in the unfamiliar pursuit of love--the battle wouldn't be worth the fighting. Iago so overpowers the Moor that pity keeps us on Othello's side much longer than hope. Though he plays with just enough confidence and grace...
...Curt Mead, press coordinator for the rally, declined to make a crowd prediction. He did say, however, that a crowd of fewer than 8000 "would be an extreme disappointment," and that the committee would be extremely pleased if more than 15,000 showed...
...Times, in a curt statement, said simply that it "will comply with the restraining order... [and] will present its arguments against an injunction at the hearing scheduled for Friday...