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...Road. In Auburn, Ind., Carl Wilder, charged with drunken driving after his truck went through a farmyard, caromed off an automobile and demolished 100 yds. of fence, told police: "I always take this shortcut...
...Nowadays, by derivation, Cumberland also means the wire-jumper used by some Haitians to bypass electric meters and thereby shortcut the bills from the U.S.-owned power company...
...government. Most important, they set up rural schools, where peasants could begin to get the education they needed to compete with the elite. Such was the reputation of the Americans for efficiency that the surname of Dr. W. W. Cumberland, customs receiver, became an accepted Creole word meaning shortcut...
...Shortcut. In Springfield, Mass., a thief rushed up to Pedestrian Dennis Kneeland, snipped off part of his necktie, missed by an inch getting his $150 diamond stickpin...
...Chicago group's imaginative approach has been born of necessity. Lacking big budgets, elaborate equipment and big-name talent, they are forced to shortcut the elaborate. They specialize in what they call "simplified realism" and "ad-lib drama." By banning studio audiences they can use the four walls of every set; short on cameras, booms and overhead trolleys, they never switch from one camera to another without a good reason...