Word: curtly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Wednesday night on "Survivor" it was what's-his-name, Joel, the blithe and slightly creepy golden boy whose prowess in the Immunity Challenges was apparently dispensable when weighed against his ability to irk every woman in sight. His flame snuffed, Joel departed with a "Wow" and a curt wave, and headed back to normal, non-tribal life as a traveling salesman for a health club...
...teams, spin moves around opposing centers that leave them rooted like 1,000-year-old sequoias. He has finesse, but he relies on power. You can feel the beat when he plays, explosions of mass and muscularity that fill up the court like blasts of boom-box rap. Short, curt hooks. BAM! Power-jams in the paint. BOOM! Or, as in Game 7 of the Portland series, a spectacular fourth-quarter alley-oop from Bryant that O'Neal pulled from the rafters of the Staples Center. Shaq came down harder than thunder, harder than a Dr. Dre track. SHAKA-LAKA...
...Oregon State, growth in network usage was doubling every 90 days, prompting Associate Provost Curt Pederson to ban Napster-related traffic...
...Vogue staff members Betts took with her), and Betts acknowledged Wintour in her first editor's note as well. It seems the two share more than good manners. "Kate is more effusive and engaged than Anna in general," says a writer at Vogue, "but she can also be curt and quite intimidating...