Word: curtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charles Kehrberg of Hillsdale, Mich., explains how to fumigate stored food grains (add dry ice). In "Food: Preparation, Production, Preservation," Ruth Anthony of Kansas City, Kans., talks about subsisting on wild plants (eat only the tender inner leaves of dandelions, the leafy tips of purslane). In "Guns and Reloading," Curt Putnam of Kansas City, Mo., demonstrates the best way of refilling shotgun shell casings...
...Curt Flood...
...replaced Curt Flood in the Flood-Allen trade...
...javelin throwing. Mexico, in fact, has never had a President with such wide-ranging interests: he plays the guitar, loves to ride horses, and his bedroom is decorated with his own paintings. He has a reputation as an early rising hard worker?he avoids siestas and can be curt with aides who lack his sense of punctuality. Last week he caused mild pandemonium at the U.N. by arriving 14 minutes early for a meeting with Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. He is fond of attractive women but is close to his family: Wife Carmen Romano, an accomplished pianist, Daughters Paulina...
...floated up through the tobacco fields and hit Cambridge like Three Mile Island hit the folks at Babcock and Wilcox. One official in the Northeast called down to once-amiable Barnwell and tried to get them to change their minds. "We're not even third cousins anymore," came the curt reply...