Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Comely Colonel Hobby was entitled to wear the European Theater of Operations ribbon because of her three weeks' visit to England last November. At that time, the ribbons were given for service outside the continental U.S., however near and brief the assignment. On July 13 the regulations were tightened, and since then Colonel Hobby's shirt front has been ribbonless...
...industrial chaplain generally has some sort of improvised chapel (often it is also a lending library) where he holds services, talks with workers who want advice. But his ministry is not confined to the chapel. Often he goes to the factory canteen, holds a brief service (hymns, prayers, address, question-&-answer period) after meals. He sometimes holds services in the shadow of a ship's hull, perhaps during the night leads a few hymns and some prayers in the factory air-raid shelter...
...brief interlude between studies that affords us such enjoyment should not be begrudged by you who forget that we, but for the grace of God, might...
...promised to do for its readers is to size up the week's news for you, boil it down, point it up, and fit it together into a clear, concise, sense-making, coherent narrative that you can read cover-to-cover in a single evening. In such a brief and balanced presentation there is seldom place for long, first-person reports...
...every on-the-spot word our 200-odd crack correspondents cable us is valuable insurance that our stories are as true as they are brief and that our editors have all the facts they need to understand the situation they are telling you about (we published only 35 words of Hersey's fine cable on the bombing of Rome, but those 35 words included his all-important verdict that: "What I saw convinced me that the raid could offend no one but the Italian Army...