Word: brief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Practice was confined to loosening-up exercises with brief workouts for the passing and kicking specialists, but the squad will have a lengthy strategy meeting on game plans tonight, with another scheduled for tomorrow morning before luncheon. Art Valpey is waiting for a look at the weather before the commits his squad to a definite type of game, but if today's skies were any indication it will be a perfect day for pitch-outs and passes...
Yesterday scrimmage was resumed after a brief period of dummy plays. This time a specially-tutored jayvee team made like Cadets, giving the Varsity a taste of Earl Blaik's fast-breaking T formation offense...
That sentence summarized Western Europe's fear. In the French National Defense Ministry's Salle des Maréchaux, where Napoleon used to brief his marshals, the five Western European nations last week decided to set up a watch on the Rhine. Implementing the Brussels alliance (TIME, March 15), the defense ministers of Great Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg met and agreed on common measures against aggression-i:e., against a possible Russian attack. They set up "permanent international command . . . under a permanent military chairman...
...worst didn't have a chance to happen. The diathermic duo was in fourth place, six lengths behind such high-caliber swifties as Spy Song and Coaltown (a stablemate), when suddenly, as if stung by bees, Citation shot ahead. In one brief explosive burst he catapulted past the leaders. Said Arcaro later: "I never hit him. I never even clucked to him. All I did was look ahead and see that LeRoy Pierson, on Coaltown, was blocking the way. So I yelled 'Watch out, LeRoy!' It must have been the password...
...Morley sinks his teeth into the role as though it were an ear of corn dripping with butter-which, theatrically, it is. As Holt's wife, Actress Ash-croft-turning from a happy young mother into a blotchy old drunk-has a fat acting part too; but for brief seconds here & there, she is so good that she gives it the pinched look of tragedy...