Word: shorthand
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Harvard's superb shorthand play, especially during three minutes and 49 seconds of B. C. power-play, (11 seconds were 5-on-3) from 13:17 to 18:06, kept the game scoreless until the buzzer sounded to end the first period...
Long familiarity enables the three to talk in a kind of clipped shorthand, and on occasion they even finish each other's sentences. Over the second course (cold cereal for Baker and Meese, a Western omelet for Deaver) the breakfast talk turned to a prospective White House order allowing striking members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization to be hired for some Government jobs (though not again as controllers). Meese suggested some precise lawyerly language. Said Baker: "I think the PATCO stuff came out . . . " Deaver finished: ". . . just the way it should have...
...cannot make a decent adaptation of one of their own literary treasures, who can? And it is a delight, faithful to the soulfully comic spirit of Goncharov's novel-about a man who would rather sleep than fight the modern world-yet gracefully free-spirited in using cinema shorthand to keep the story moving...
...NASA command centers in Texas and Florida. Houston Bureau Chief Robert Wurmstedt interviewed NASA Staff Physician Sharon Tilton to learn about the astronauts' physical and emotional condition in space. He soon discovered that the only way to communicate with technicians was by taking a crash course in scientific shorthand. Says Wurmstedt: "The major impression made on any reporter covering a space shot for the first time is the apparent inability of scientists to explain anything in laymen's terms. Even the letter F can be a mystery. At NASA it stands for Fahrenheit, failure, female, forward and front...
...well aware of the existence of her younger rival, whom she disdainfully alluded to in a letter to Tarnower. "If it's any help, darling," she wrote, "I can find someone who would be thrilled to give the same 24-hour door-to-door services, and take shorthand, too." Chiding him for his "unconstitutional" chauvinism, she wrote, in a more serious vein: "If one of the few women you do admire [listing a group of New York's prominent women] were to adopt the male equivalent of Lynne as lover and richly rewarded boy Friday, you wouldn...