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They eventually came up with “Laconic Gallery,” for Laconia, Greece, where Martin traces his roots, and because the word laconic perfectly describes Martin’s ethos: marked by the use of few words.

To the groans of every Democratic official and strategist in the country, Joe Biden reemerged this week for a couple of interviews, perhaps trying to get a few words in before a new book takes a daisy cutter to what remains of his legacy.

Halfway through Leo XIV's first speech as pope, which he delivered in Italian, he stopped and asked if he might say a few words in Spanish.

It may just have been a few words in the book’s introduction, but that one statement and the book that it introduced were an early call for historians of colonial America to look beyond Virginia and Massachusetts and to work collectively toward a more comparative and continental vision of early America, one that today is widely embraced as Vast Early America.

Most of the traders can already speak a few words of English.