Asked about the play by reporters after the game, Herrion was quick to downplay it, tersely calling it a "non-story."

In later years, prolific critic Leslie Halliwell tersely called Two Seconds a "competent, pacy crime melodrama."

A public auction will offer computers, a telephone system and what a newspaper classified advertisement tersely called a "tremendous quantity very fine office furniture and equipment."

Vanion called tersely to his oddly assorted army and led the way into the city.