Word: curtness
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...American literature") to the Metropolitan Opera house in the newly-constructed Lincoln Center ("a miracle of bad taste and ineptitude"), as well as the financial perils of the freelance life (some of the more amusing letters in the book are Wilson's epistles to his various publishers, for which "curt" hardly does justice as a description: "I was interested to see these pathetic specimens of Doubleday's feeble pretense to have advertised my book..." begins one of the politer examples...
...brief ceremony beforehand (“Ted wanted it this way,” said master of ceremonies Curt Gowdy), Williams restlessly toed the turf before him, and gazed out to the left field stands while Boston dignitaries praised...
...Curt Schilling is the more talkative half of the greatest one-two pitching combination in baseball today. He and fellow Arizona Diamondback ace Randy Johnson were co-MVPs in last year?s World Series. Tonight Schilling will play in his fifth All-Star game. He tells TIME's Mitch Frank what it?s like to be an All-Star, whether players should be tested for steroids and how computers help give him an edge...
...become very good friends, and I would like to think that after baseball R.J. will still be a very good friend of mine. And you don't get a lot of those in the game. He?s a good guy. He's a quiet man. He's the anti-Curt Schilling. He's a man of few words, which is one of the reasons why we get along so well. And he's going to end up his career as the greatest strikeout pitcher in the history of the game. I?d be dumb not to take advantage...
...didn’t provide Pedro Martinez with adequate support. Now it seems that Red Sox brass have at last learned to copy the Yankees’ winning formula—pitching pitching pitching. (Indeed it was only through adhering to that very doctrine that Arizona, led by Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson, were able to take down the Yankees in last year’s World Series...