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In a terse statement issued Wednesday, Justice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi said that the breach wasn’t discovered until December 24, which is nine days after the hack campaign came to light.
A dozen of these terse but meaningless sayings now dance before our recollection, for who has not heard them, even to loathing?
"Hit's the pore house fer a cow hand," was his terse aphorism on the subject, and Landy had never seen a "fitten" poor house.
DAVID LANNARCK, MIDGETGEORGE S. HARNEY
Ripley briefed the general situation as it stood on the night of the engine theft in a few terse sentences.
THE WRECKERSFRANCIS LYNDE
Bill Hayes gave a terse account of his stewardship during Hollister's absence.
THE HIDDEN PLACESBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
Bill, to use a terse but slangy term, proceeded to go up in the air.
RADIO BOYS LOYALTYWAYNE WHIPPLE
"We'll sign him on as steward to cover the law," proffered the captain, as terse in consent as he was in refusal.
Even the handwriting has a terse look; the flourish of youth has gone out of it.
Some of the items consist of no more than a few terse, suggestive words—serious, humorous, sometimes profane.
The old turkey-cock, stretching his lean neck, glared down upon him with a terse qwit!
THE BACKWOODSMENCHARLES G. D. ROBERTS

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