Word: tersest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...self-love," a monumental pompous ass. To him, as a huffing spoilsport, is addressed one of Shakespeare's crispest queries: "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?" To him, by a frisking clown, is tossed some of Shakespeare's tersest wisdom: "There is no darkness but ignorance." And nowhere more than in Twelfth Night can a lovely moment suddenly leap out of the crudest horseplay...
...contrast to the numerous letters extolling TIME, I offer the following as an example of the tersest condemnation yet to be hurled upon your illustrious magazine...
...average submarine man is an introvert. Long weeks under the sea, as well as the secrecy of his work, have made him the least talkative of all military men. He may go months without receiving news, or giving any. He cannot make any but the tersest official reports until he returns for his three weeks ashore between missions. And so his philosophy necessarily is: "It will keep." The pale-faced submarine man lives a crowded, dehydrated existence which may cause him to lose as much as 20 Ib. during his three months or so at sea. But he eats well...
...earliest and tersest prophets, a Roman sibyl, may well claim the record for prophetic realism. Said she: "There shall be no end to war in this world. They all shall slay one another...