Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...copy exhibited a hot faith in the British capacity to win through and a hot impatience with British censorship, which kept him from telling the whole story as he felt it. He wrote and spoke a commentary for the English documentary film, London Can Take It, which, in brief and quiet fashion, told the U.S. volumes...
...character: John Applegate, an average American. The scene: his mind. An uneven and diffuse book of ten chapters and 246 pages, Mainstream contains thumbnail biographical sketches that run in time from Cotton Mather to Franklin Roosevelt, in variety from John Calhoun to Phineas Barnum. Also included are a brief exposition of their ideas or of the aspect of American life they represented, good quotations from their works and a wandering argument that appears and disappears through the pages like the ne'er-do-well son of an old Southern family returning home for a visit...
...program notes were issued at the brief concert of November 9, 1927, but if you've heard a McKenzie-Condon record you know it was jazz, and the boys didn't give a damn who found out. It was direct and to the point--strictly six men ganging up on a flock of instruments in a fight to the finish...
...ships. She opened up with a blinding burst of flame, sank it. Her secondary battery smashed one Jap destroyer then another. Other U.S. ships were firing salvos, but the Helena chose to use "continuous fire." Her gunflames flared from stem to stern. In the brief moment left of her life she loosed perhaps a thousand rounds from main batteries alone and her thunder could be heard for miles...
...Army itself or subsequently approved by GAO. The false teeth, said Mr. Patterson, were due to a Navy-not Army-order that a contractor's technicians take an extra pair along to Russia (together with extra glasses) because such medical minutiae are unobtainable there. "While I hold no brief for the dog," concluded Judge Patterson, "does an item of $1.39 really justify a charge of incompetence...