Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief tax expert, small, dun-colored Randolph Paul. Now & then they both drank water from a cone of paper cups piled beside a big water jug, while a battery of grey young Treasury experts, without benefit of raisins and water, periodically scrabbled for documents in accordion-sized brief cases. Morgenthau & Co. needed their vitamins: they had been up most of the night before, putting the finishing touches on the Treasury's recommendations for the 1944 tax bill. They had missed their breakfasts...
Highlight of the brief affair was a close-order drill by the Naval Science regiment, executed with timing and precision. After the ROTC exhibition, which was preceded by a simultaneous salute of welcome to the visiting notables, the entire unit passed before Admiral Theobald, Captain George N. Barker, USN, and Dean Buck...
Himmler has almost never been seen in civilian clothes ; he prefers SS uniforms. A U.S. reporter who saw him during one of his few appearances in mufti says: "He looked like a professor of agriculture in a Midwest University." He has brief, skinny hair. His pince-nez rimless glasses give his somber blue eyes the precise squint of the clerk of a small-town council who secretly believes he will some day be mayor. He shaves twice daily yet never seems clean-shaven. His jowls flab down to a murderous little chin; the mustache is a respectful miniature of Hitler...
...brief interlude broke the continuity. On June 26, 1775, the Provincial Congress at Watertown "resolved that the President's house in Cambridge be taken, cleaned, prepared and furnished for the reception of Generals Washington and lee." On July 2 Washington arrived and temporarily set up his headquarters there...
...these past few months that I have wanted to tell someone about it. ... We hear an occasional radio report and see the local newspapers, but they do not fill the bill. When TIME comes, it is read from cover to cover, and we have a feeling that for a brief period we have been back home among the things we know and with people who think...