Word: curtness
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...White House tightly controls these press conferences - allowing only two questions - and Bush works hard to embarrass reporters who ask multi-part questions or try to follow-up. But perhaps sensing that his answer was curt and inadequate, the President circled back later after his host had answered another question and added that America had funded and trained African forces to handle situations just like the one in Liberia. "It's a sensible policy for us to continue that training mission," he said, "so that we never do get over-extended." Bush then reasserted his position from yesterday...
...definitely a split decision,” said Curt Levey, director of legal and public affairs for the Center for Individual Rights, a non-profit Washington law firm which opposes racial preferences...
...feel they are in the company of attitudinal equals. This is based on hours of sitting around clothing stores and staring at really hot women trying on boots, sometimes while waiting for my wife and sometimes just because I am a truly pathetic man. These women are often demanding, curt and dismissive. Which only makes them hotter...
...flapper" was a beguiling presence. By the age of 20 Haas was starring in an Ufa movie with her own name in the title ("Dolly Gets Ahead"). From 1930 to '35 she played the worldly waif, the child-woman, in about 18 German films, many for writers (Billy Wilder, Curt Siodmak) and directors (William Dieterle, Anatole Litvak, William Thiele, Steve Sekely, Henry Koster) who would fashion second careers in Hollywood...
Randy Johnson, Curt Schilling and some other guys beat the Yankees in a thrilling World Series last season. This was supposed to be the year to re-establish the dynasty’s might. Several huge off-season acquisitions and the emergence of young talent promised a return to glory. In the end, the pitching really wasn’t there and the bats didn’t come around when they needed...