Word: curtly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...situation as a "mistake." A mistake is dialing the wrong number or locking your keys in the car. What Flinn did was lie, disobey direct orders and bring dishonor to herself. This is much more than a mistake. This kind of "mistake maker" should not be flying nuclear weapons. CURT PAISON Chicago...
...sentence, abolitionists believe, implies that certain individuals have lost the right to call themselves human, an idea that runs counter to the Founding Fathers' vision of inalienable rights that can neither be taken away for bad behavior nor awarded for good conduct. Those rights, says Amnesty International deputy director Curt Goering, "apply to all of us--even the worst. And in the end, they protect...
...telephone conversation that he recalls having with one of his deputies, Kleindienst was curt...
...even weirder at Warner. Harry Warner, the studio's money czar, said he knew nothing about his cartoon unit except that "we make Mickey Mouse." Leon Schlesinger, the stingy despot who ran the unit until 1944, would begin his viewing of dailies with a curt "Roll the garbage." Schlesinger did inspire his troops once: his lisp was the basis for Daffy Duck's voice. Schlesinger's successor, Eddie Selzer, hated the notion that his slaves might enjoy their work. He once sputtered, "What the hell has all this laughter to do with the making of animated cartoons...
...left early during the question and answer period because people would ask very long questions, and he would only respond with very curt answers," Margolis said...