And I'd get a terse response Oh, that's worse.

The management was extremely terse over the telephone at breakfast time, and took a lot of soothing.

On June 3, while I was visiting Guantánamo with other journalists, the press office there issued a terse announcement that al Hanashi had had been found dead in his cell an apparent suicide.

NEW DELHI For 18 days, during the ebb and flow of protest, it did not seem possible that the end of the Egyptian Revolution would come so suddenly, in a terse announcement that lasted no more than a half minute President Hosni Mubarak has relinquished office .

The position of the Working Group can be summarized as follows the Working Group notes at the outset that the information provided by the Government is fairly terse. It fails to reveal how and to what extent the information disseminated by Mr. al Shaghouri through the Internet was detrimental to the security and reputation of the country.