Word: curtness
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...helicopter was heading for home. Fifteen lives had been saved. With their mission accomplished, Russi turned to the now former hostages, smiled, and in nine curt words announced their deliverance...
...replied dismissively, "As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold?" - a reference to one of Brown's online videos. If that weren't enough to alienate Red Sox Nation, she probably finished the job when she suggested in an interview that the team's legendary pitcher Curt Schilling (a Brown supporter) was a Yankees fan. (See TIME's Swampland blog on the election...
Fast Facts About Amanda Knox • Born July 9, 1987, in Seattle, the daughter of Edda Mellas, a math teacher, and Curt Knox, a vice president of finance at Macy's; the couple divorced when Knox was a toddler...
...Perugia has been a disorienting place, with steep, winding alleys leading to brick dead ends or unexpected sky and mountain vistas. Guilty or not, Amanda Knox, the pot-smoking, alt Holly Golightly from Seattle, certainly lost her way. "I am looking and hoping for a positive outcome," her father Curt Knox told TIME in court. "There is the obvious possibility of her being found guilty, but as we listen to the defense closing arguments, we feel more positive...
...this world, arguments are as dangerous as radiation and as swift as ballistic missiles, as are the curt phrases that punctuate them. Later, I will hear the story of the 1984 Northwestern Tournament from the man who won it, Jonathan B. Wiener ’84. The other team spoke at length about Cuban refugees intercepted by US patrol boats. Wiener and his partner parried with their own counter-plan, but its significance eluded their opponents. “I guess you missed the boat,” the Harvard team quipped. The audience collapsed in hysterics. It ruined...