Word: curtness
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...invitation: would Communist leaders Mao Tse-tung, Chou Enlai, Tung Pi-wu, Lin Tsu-han, Chen Shao-yu and Teng Yingchao (Mrs. Chou Enlai) attend the July meeting of the People's Political Council, which will plan a national constitutional assembly? From Yenan to Chungking went a curt reply...
Rats bite men because they like human blood. Johns Hopkins' Curt P. Richter, Ph.D., in the Journal of the American Medical Association, says he can prove...
...headquarters on a Guam hilltop, Major General Curtis Emerson LeMay added up the results of three months' massive B-29 attacks on Tokyo. Tough-minded, realistic Curt LeMay claimed nothing of which he could not be sure. The things of which he could be sure...
...Thomson's fatal hemorrhage. Simeon Solomon died in a poorhouse; consumption killed Ernest Dowson (Cynara) at 33. Brilliant Aubrey Beardsley, whose delicate, sensual illustrations for Wilde's Salome became more famous than the play itself, died of tuberculosis, complicated by high living, at 25, leaving a curt, harrowing letter to a friend...
Most of the committeemen expected to elect the official host, Secretary Stettinius, permanent president of the conference. Anthony Eden made the routine nomination. Curt and strained, Molotov rose and objected. The conference, he said, should have four presidents, one for each of the sponsoring powers (the U.S., Russia, Britain. China); each of the presidents should take his turn with the gavel, and together they should control all the business of the conference. The delegation heads who made up the steering committee heard this proposal with successive disbelief, dismay, anger: it seemed to them to be a deliberate, pointless affront...