Word: curtness
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...tedious procedure, because very few of them are clever. A typical picture is one of a ragged little dog labeled Trixie, first and fiercest bulldog, supposedly demonstrating the dauntless spirit of the dogged Blue eleven. But the cut lines do the best with meager material, in a mock, curt, newspaper style...
From the U.N. command to Red headquarters in North Korea last week went a curt note and a list of 3,404 names. They were the names of U.N. soldiers who disappeared in action and did not come back in the mass exchange of P.W.s...
...Philadelphia, Pitcher Curt Simmons, lefthanded star of the Phillies, was lost to his club for at least two weeks when he caught a foot in his power lawnmower...
...confidence of the grown-up Whiz Kids (average age now: 28) stems from complete faith in the strongest left and right pitching punch in baseball: Righthander Robin Roberts, 26, and Southpaw Curt Simmons, 23. who between them won 42 games last season while losing only 15. Alternating this season with Righthander Karl Drews (14-15), the three managed to win eight of the Phils' first twelve games. Oldtime Catcher O'Neill (Cleveland Indians), who remembers the days when pitchers were not mollycoddled with whirlpool baths and heated jackets, intends to keep right on making work horses...
Cigar-chewing Curt LeMay, a sports-car enthusiast who does his own highway driving in a Cadillac-Allard, was on hand to watch a pet LeMay project. Airport racing, with admissions at $2 a head, swells the treasuries of Air Force Aid societies and local charities, pays for barracks improvements and gives SAC airmen a constructive off-duty hobby-tinkering with engines. Moreover, the Sports Car Club gains the advantage of sporty, twisting courses on the runways, where chance spectators are not so apt to wander out into the turns as they sometimes do in road racing...