Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs fought desperately this week in their own front yard. In one of the greatest air battles of the Pacific war, hundreds of Jap planes took to the air, flew against a U.S. task force which was assaulting Saipan. Inside a few brief hours, said the U.S. Navy, more than 300 had been destroyed. On the island itself, U.S. troops fought...
...that, like many a commander in chief before him, he settled down to chain-smoking cigarets, to sweating out a miserable period of waiting-of confused, skimpy, incomplete reports, while other men put his campaign plans to the test. Not until five days later could he make his first brief inspection visit to the beachhead. Then he had eminent companions: General Marshall, Admiral King and General Arnold, who had flown from Washington to London during the week...
...soiled and wilted Panama suit, Dr. Grau stumped the countryside. The people remembered how, in his brief former Presidency during the great depression, he had tried to up wages, make more jobs. His earnest voice, his fervid sermons against corruption, his glowing talk of more schools and better roads, of Pan American solidarity and Cuba for the Cubans, sparked an emotional tinder. Peasant women knelt before him, held up their babies for his touch. Many believed the myth that "honest Grau" would end taxes, rent, electric and water bills...
Faith in a Hall Bedroom. The industrial revolution was booming. Hours were long, wages low. Dry-goods clerks sometimes worked 14 to 17 hours a day. For recreation in their brief free time they were offered only gambling, drunkenness, lechery...
Last fall Ernie came home for a brief visit and Aunt Mary asked him how it felt to be a celebrity. Reported Aunt Mary: "He said it didn't make him feel any different, and I said, 'Well, don't you feel some above the rest of us now?' Ernest said, 'Why should I? You're all dear...