Word: curtness
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...Waldorf. After Britain, King captured Canada, and then achieved his greatest prominence in the U.S. (the Sullivan show, the Garry Moore program) with curt wisecracks mostly about the sorrows of suburbia: "I really believe my wife collects the garbage from the neighbors just so I can take...
...like a jejune Joyce; at his best he generates images like the navel of the demiurge itself. And the images reflect ideas. Gass is a trained thinker, a professor of philosophy at Purdue University, and in this fable he enlivens the weary old war between good and evil with curt communiqués and rakingly comic crossfire...
...capt.): 2. Ian Gardiner; 3. Jacques Flechter; 4. Eric Sigward; 5. Curt Canning; 6. Andy Larkin; 7. Brian Clemow; stroke, Clint Alien; cox, Paul Hoffman...
...criticism came from both House and Senate, from Republicans and Democrats-and from no fewer than seven different congressional panels. Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, still smarting from McNamara's curt brush-off last summer of a Stennis report on materiel shortages, announced that his Senate Preparedness Investigating subcommittee is undertaking "an overall assessment of the extent of our military commitments." Alaska Democrat Ernest Gruening, chairman of a Senate Government Operations subcommittee, will examine "unnecessary and wasteful disposals" of surplus military vehicles...
Lord Moran was, in fact, more than Churchill's doctor. From the time Sir Winston became Prime Minister of a besieged Britain in 1940 to the last, curt medical bulletin ("Shortly after 8 a.m., Sir Winston Churchill died at his London home"), Charles McMoran Wilson was his confidant and companion. He traveled 140,000 miles with Churchill, watched him grapple with Stalin and Roosevelt, nursed him through pneumonia in the North African campaign and the series of strokes that punctuated and palsied his postwar comeback as Prime Minister...