Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he got back to Washington last week he had traveled 11,000 miles by air in eleven days, had jammed his mind and his brief case with first-hand information about the North. He also had a headache...
...grenades for "well-digging." In no time the cops claimed to have caught him handing the grenades to two torpedoes. They said the torpedoes confessed they had been hired to use the grenades on Alemán and Serrano. Lasso, they said, also confessed after only a brief chat...
Three nights later he used the A.A.F.'s 39th anniversary dinner as a sounding board for foreign listeners. Rising up in the Hotel Statler's glittering ballroom in a cream-colored jacket, he gave a brief earnest of the U.S. postwar intent: "The U.S. wants no power, territory or reparations. All it wants is a just peace...
...Sheridan, who was not built for laughs, satisfied a childhood ambition, took a brief fling at clowning with Ringling Bros., in Grand Rapids. Out of her clown clothes she was a much better show...
...world-weary outsider, these sentimental lines would scarcely seem to fit the barren, rocky acres of Star Island, one of the nine Isles of Shoals off New Hampshire's brief coast. But to the religiously liberal Unitarian Fellowship, these and the other two stanzas of the song Gosport Harbor, explain the intangible atmosphere of peace that makes Star Island a favorite summer retreat. For half a century Unitarians have gone from some 24 states "to worship God here in the midst of His sea to take counsel together of the deep thing that abide, to share the friendship...