Word: curtness
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...Cold, Curt, Cruel...
...People don't completely collapse. They go on living anyway." [TIME, Dec. 29]. These words, spoken by Bob Taft about the hungry and politically confused peoples of Europe, seem to ... me the most cold, curt and cruel indictment, or better still abandonment, of humanity since Marie Antoinette told the hungry mob, "Let them eat cake...
...dozen years, John Lewis turned his back on the house of labor he could not dominate. Truculent and unrepentant of having formed the secessionist C.I.O., he had returned to A.F.L. 22 months ago in the hope of twirling its leaders around his little finger. The formal reason for his curt note of divorce was his split with A.FL.'s officers over methods of combating the Taft-Hartley...
...miners. But it was the perfect cue for González to strike still harder at his late allies and their international tutors. That afternoon he summoned his Cabinet. Then, charging that the Soviet Union had "inspired grave attempts against the political independence of the republic," he sent a curt note to Russia's Ambassador Dimitri Zhukov, breaking off diplomatic relations. For good measure, he broke with Czechoslovakia...
...hallowed ground came humbler things, too. The ruins of an old Greek drugstore had urns marked "purgative" and "wine "wine sweetened sweetened with honey." A fragment of pottery (which the Greeks used as scratch paper) bore the curt instruction: "Leave the saw under the threshold." The diggers have already figured out how the Acropolis (citadel) of Athens looked at various periods of history, and have even built models (see cut}. But there is still much work to be done in and under the Agora. The diggers think that they have chores to keep them busy for the next...