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...live in and fire from. But everyone, from the stalwart general (Ken Watanabe) on down, realizes that this anthill is to be a mass tomb. Waiting for an enemy with superior firepower, knowing you can't leave, knowing you can't win, knowing you will die--this is the tersest summary...
...mails and phone calls that poured out of the buildings in the last frenzied moments on Sept. 11, 2001, to show how rescue workers, stock brokers, security guards and secretaries fought through a maze of locked doors and blocked stairways as the clock ticked down. Sometimes the tersest fragments are the most eloquent, like the record of a 911 call that reads simply, "Female caller states they are stuck in elevator. States they are dying...
...such pity for the vast majority of that growling, racing bunch: the transplanted natives of the rest of the world, who seem to have picked up a fanatical devotion to the Yale of the baseball diamond along with their study cards and room keys. To them, Dartboard has the tersest of advice: give...
...staff) that disease, death and violence are mortal "errors." Thus the Monitor gives only token coverage to top medical stories such as the Salk vaccine; it sternly downplays disaster and crime. It shuns error-prone society and show-business chitchat and runs the world's tersest obituaries (omitting the cause of death and names of survivors...
Reticent Americans. Buchwald's replies ran from the tersest reasons, e.g., "Suez," "John Foster Dulles," to full-scale defenses of Americans by British admirers. He concluded last week that Americans would be better liked in Britain if they "would stop spending money, talking loudly in public places, telling the British who won the war, chewing gum [and would] dress properly, throw away their cameras, move their air bases out of England, settle the desegregation problem, turn over the hydrogen bomb to Britain, put the American woman in her proper place, not export rock 'n' roll, and speak...