Word: laconicism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This sensational pre-World War II exploit is spoiled by a Nazi guard, who overpowers the Englishman. At Berchtesgaden the hunter's laconic explanation that it was only a sporting, not a shooting stalk, gets short shrift. An extra-special Nazi third degree fails to alter his story. Unable...
Of these two ends, the first was more immediate. The President moved to answer criticisms of the Defense Commission, by a new organization. He turned laconic Commissioner William Knudsen into a pamphleteer to state the "terrible urgency." plead with the U. S. to "roll up their sleeves."
Key Pittman liked straight shooting, straight talk, straight whiskey. Despite his 68 years, he was tall, lean and lithe as a whip. It was said that he kept flat-waisted by bowing gracefully. He had plantation manners-the soft-voiced courtesy of his Vicksburg, Miss, breeding. But he was tough...
Other standouts for the Lamarmen besides Vander Eb included center Bill Laconic and guard Elisha Atkins on the defense, wingback Chub Lee, and passsnagger Haydock.
One day last week, at the peak of his career, handsome, laconic, 52-year-old José Félix Estigarribia, soldier, diplomat, statesman, boarded a plane with his wife in Asuncion for a holiday at his country home on Lake Ypacaray. Somewhere between Altos and San Bernardino, 65 miles...