Word: curtness
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...Cardinals got four shutout innings of relief pitching from Bob Gibson and Barney Schultz, but needed three-run innings to overhaul the pesky Mets, who had taken an early 3-2 lead. Home runs by Bill White and Curt Flood helped pile up insurance runs for the Cards...
...series of curt, kaleidoscopic essays loosely tied to the framework of a trip Leonhardt made through Germany with a group of non-German friends, he discourses on anti-Semitism ("Since they murdered the Jews, the Germans are becoming more and more stupid"), the abominable German tourist ("His yearning to communicate assumes loudspeaker proportions as soon as he crosses the border"), the political decline of West German Protestantism (they are "protest-weary"). But Leonhardt is too thorough a journalist not to buttress his arguments with shocks of statistics and a quorum of quotes from sources as disparate as Madame...
...beginning of platform hearings on August 17, news-starved reporters were bombarding the Washington FDP office for information. Each met with a reception one reporter termed "curt, cold, and nasty:" "The delegates will be here next weekend. If you want more, call Jackson...
...beginning of platform hearings on August 17, news-starved reporters were bombarding the Washington FDP office for information. Each met with a reception one reporter termed "curt, cold, and nasty:" "The delegates will be here next weekend. If you want more, call Jackson...
...With a curt announcement last week, Chile became the first of the four Latin American holdouts to follow through on the OAS sanctions against Communist Cuba. Though the government had voted against breaking economic and diplomatic relations with Castro, President Jorge Alessandri decided that Chile had no choice but to honor the will of the majority-and do it promptly. Still to be heard from are Bolivia and Uruguay; Mexico has refused to break relations. "The resolution against Cuba," said Alessandri, "has to be complied with. If not, it would imply a serious precedent and mean sooner or later...