Word: curtly
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Clutch: Having the ability to perform well in difficult situations. Vivid examples include Derek Jeter turning into an option quarterback to save Game 3, and perhaps the Division Series, for the Yankees. “Clutch” can also be understood in terms of anything Curt Schilling (2-0, 18 IP, 3 ER, 9 H) has done with a baseball in the last week. Significant because “being clutch” is a necessary ingredient to postseason success...
...high country since I was a boy scout in the '60s. I live in a house built of lumber and read TIME on paper. A middle way must be found to provide a livelihood for Westerners but keep the beauty and diversity of nature of the West for all. CURT EIDEM Everett, Wash...
...appear. But Welty was always gracious to her adoring fans, particularly young writers. As her health declined, her doctors ordered her to post a sign at the entrance of her home forbidding visitors without an appointment. But Welty, always the gracious southern lady, thought the message was too curt. Beneath the warning, in a spiderly script, she had scrawled a penciled note of apology...
...This one's a little more explosive. First, the calendar: Wagner has seven days to submit his formal report to Chairman Curt L. Hebert, a Bush appointee, and the rest of the five-man FERC board. Three more of whom are Bush appointees. If, as seems likely, the FERC bosses take Wagner's advice about getting a better class of advice and holds the hearing, that's another 60 days on top of that. At which point the FERC can start think about offering a decision...
...comforter. (Think Jeff Probst offering starving Survivors extra vittles in exchange for their tent.) Not so Anne Robinson of The Weakest Link (NBC, Mondays, 8 p.m. E.T.), a British import game show with a Survivor twist: players vote each other off. The dour, sarcastic host dismisses losers with a curt "You are the weakest link. Goodbye." (Thanks to NBC's weeks-long ad blitz, it may be the first TV catchphrase Americans have got sick of before its show even aired). But there's an integrity to her evil-Regis act. She mercilessly skewers the weak, but her tongue-lashings...