These terse cookie-cutter letters bespeak a maladroit candidate who doesn't play well with others, particularly when they are from social references.

One terse letter said, "He who dislikes the cat was in his former life a rat."

He then sent a terse letter to Selpin's wife notifying her of her husband's suicide.

I should have been consulted because it affected me too, she thought, and wrote a terse letter to him.

After two sets of terse letters were exchanged between the courts' administrative offices and the comptroller's office, the justices weighed in on Thursday.

On Jan. 20, 1969, the mathematician wrote his terse, two-sentence letter of resignation, with his departure set for five months hence.

There was a terse little letter after out last meeting.

The couple recently sent the Mayor a terse letter saying they would no longer support him or contribute to future campaigns.

With the diagram was a terse letter of half a dozen lines from the reader who had presented the new solution.

The board released a terse letter of resignation from Ms. Goodwin.