Word: curtness
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...Curt Flood...
...javelin throwing. Mexico, in fact, has never had a President with such wide-ranging interests: he plays the guitar, loves to ride horses, and his bedroom is decorated with his own paintings. He has a reputation as an early rising hard worker?he avoids siestas and can be curt with aides who lack his sense of punctuality. Last week he caused mild pandemonium at the U.N. by arriving 14 minutes early for a meeting with Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. He is fond of attractive women but is close to his family: Wife Carmen Romano, an accomplished pianist, Daughters Paulina...
...floated up through the tobacco fields and hit Cambridge like Three Mile Island hit the folks at Babcock and Wilcox. One official in the Northeast called down to once-amiable Barnwell and tried to get them to change their minds. "We're not even third cousins anymore," came the curt reply...
...congressmen who came out for the guaranteed loan were playing political footsie, not political hardball, with Chrysler. The politicans seem to believe that the government-guaranteed loan is somehow radically new and different from Chrysler's original proposal of a tax credit. Just this weekend, Miller issued a curt statement that the tax credit "would not be acceptable...
Some 150 other pro-choice advocates joined the effort. They met vocal opposition from pro-lifers who were picketing Capitol Hill. Two women pushing baby strollers had a curt conversation. "This is a pro-life baby," said one. Replied the other: "This is a pro-choice baby...