Word: succinct
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...short story-has long been forced to search for stories by new and inexpensive writers, and has started many U.S. authors on the road to fame. Example: in 1927, after Cosmopolitan, the old Scribner's, Saturday Evening Post and Collier's had all turned down a brutally succinct short story about a crooked prizefighter, it was accepted by Staffer Edward Weeks, now editor of the Atlantic. Titled Fifty Grand, it was the first story by Ernest Hemingway to be published in a general-circulation U.S. magazine...
...befitting a nation anxious to remain the world's No. 1 tourist attraction. A "strict and precise" directive to police noted that under Article One of the Concordat between Italy and the Vatican state, "police are obliged to prevent and repress any abuse against morality. Those found in succinct clothing will be gently invited to leave and to dress themselves with greater decorum. In cases of resistance, they will be identified, reported to their respective embassies and prosecuted...
...right of broadcasters to editorialize, but stressed how thorny a right it is. TV, complained Stanton, lacks the tradition and experience of the press in editorializing; moreover, "it would be most difficult [for networks] to take editorial positions acceptable to all our affiliated stations." Commentator Murrow had a more succinct explanation for the failure of broadcasters to editorialize. Said he: "They have no guts...
Your June 10 "Battle of Midway" article was succinct, important and still personal. Our thanks are also due to those who helped crack the Japanese secret code, thereby initiating an enlightened, successful campaign. WARREN C. WAGENSEIL St. Petersburg...
...view of his performance at Gettysburg was at variance with the "Southern Oratory" used to defend it. This was reasonable, for Lee himself conceded afterwards: "It is I who have lost this fight." That, of course, opened up the question of why Lee failed. Most succinct of the answers was that of the Detroit Free Press: General Lee was incapacitated by a "dysentery spell...