Word: curtly
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...feel they are in the company of attitudinal equals. This is based on hours of sitting around clothing stores and staring at really hot women trying on boots, sometimes while waiting for my wife and sometimes just because I am a truly pathetic man. These women are often demanding, curt and dismissive. Which only makes them hotter...
...flapper" was a beguiling presence. By the age of 20 Haas was starring in an Ufa movie with her own name in the title ("Dolly Gets Ahead"). From 1930 to '35 she played the worldly waif, the child-woman, in about 18 German films, many for writers (Billy Wilder, Curt Siodmak) and directors (William Dieterle, Anatole Litvak, William Thiele, Steve Sekely, Henry Koster) who would fashion second careers in Hollywood...
Randy Johnson, Curt Schilling and some other guys beat the Yankees in a thrilling World Series last season. This was supposed to be the year to re-establish the dynasty’s might. Several huge off-season acquisitions and the emergence of young talent promised a return to glory. In the end, the pitching really wasn’t there and the bats didn’t come around when they needed...
...American literature") to the Metropolitan Opera house in the newly-constructed Lincoln Center ("a miracle of bad taste and ineptitude"), as well as the financial perils of the freelance life (some of the more amusing letters in the book are Wilson's epistles to his various publishers, for which "curt" hardly does justice as a description: "I was interested to see these pathetic specimens of Doubleday's feeble pretense to have advertised my book..." begins one of the politer examples...
...brief ceremony beforehand (“Ted wanted it this way,” said master of ceremonies Curt Gowdy), Williams restlessly toed the turf before him, and gazed out to the left field stands while Boston dignitaries praised...