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To Gray Cathrall, the publisher of The Post, the suddenly terse entries were a First Amendment issue.
A 1995 article in The New York Times reported that "journalists who have gotten too close to the subject of General Abacha's personal life are often arrested". And even in Nigerian circles, little was known about the dictator's life beyond the terse entries in the public record.
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Mandela's prison entries are terse, often just a line on a wall calendar for a passing day.
We consider BioVelo's syntax terse enough to provide a user interface for direct entry of BioVelo queries.
Mahonri Young is best known for the "This Is the Place Monument" in Salt Lake City that commemorates Brigham Young's entry into the area when he made the terse declaration that is the title of the monument.
But each time I read them, I find myself passing quickly from one entry to the next, rushing onward as if these terse, meticulous notes were a flood of narrative bearing me downstream.
In so many of his entries (remember, he liked to do 15 parishes a day), it was terse, clipped, abbreviated: a nondescript Wesleyan chapel on the Lancashire moors would be described as "Built 1767.
Terse, hard-boiled.
— he grew terse.
Terse words were exchanged.
Rather constricted and terse, yes?
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