Word: curtness
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...Ivan the Terrible inside the covers does not alter the fact that many other humans who look up to Stalin will get great aid and comfort from your giving him the cover on millions of copies of TIME, displayed prominently all over our country and other countries. As "clear, curt, concise" and cold as TIME is in giving the news, which I have read for many years from cover to cover, I cannot help but feel that you should display some grain of sympathy for the thousands of humans whose deaths are the direct results of the man you term...
...with a torpedo a battleship "of the Queen Elizabeth class." In this 30,000-31,100-ton class, besides Queen Elizabeth, are Warspite, Valiant, Barham, Malaya, all commissioned between 1913 and 1915, all improved since with antitorpedo "blisters" of heavy armor amidships. From the British Admiralty's curt statement it was evident that the wounded ship was heading for port when attacked; that her "blister" saved her, since only four men were killed and she made port under her own steam...
...Hellzapoppin (produced by Olsen & Johnson). When Hellzapoppin opened last season the critics muttered a curt No, but the public howled an emphatic Yes, has been howling Yes, Yes, a Thousand Times Yes ever since. When the new Hellzapoppin opened last week, the critics acknowledged themselves licked. They knew they might just as well try to reason with an earthquake or talk back to a cannon...
...speed, and none of the dissenting voters in the audience were given the opportunity either to state their own views or question those of the speakers. One member of the audience who attempted to speak his mind early in the meeting was threatened with ejection by the chairman in curt and poorly considered terms. When that speaker had managed to get out his message, the chairman dismissed him contemptuously with, "All right, you've had your...
WMCA's ardent promotion department photostated two such puff-items, crayoned a big "SCOOP!" across the layout, ran it as an ad in the trade press. Week later from the Federal Communications Commission (James Lawrence Fly, chairman) came a curt order to WMCA to show cause, within 72 hours, why its license should not be revoked...