Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sutton had served four years in the Navy. After Pearl Harbor he enlisted again. He sold his car, gave up his plans to build a home of his own this autumn. His letters arrived home regularly until the end of March. Then came the dreaded long silence, then the brief Navy telegram: missing in action...
...Council President General Nobuyuki Abe, who, during his brief Premiership when World War II had first begun, declared: "The thing for Japan to do is to forge ahead with the . . . new order...
...story was generally known in New York City and Washington, but except for Manhattan's PM (which published brief, cautious mention of the Post stories) all the rest of the U.S. press, afraid of libel and shrinking from dirt, avoided the story like the plague. The Senate tiptoed about, unwilling to face the fact that accusations of the worst kind had been publicly leveled at one of its members. Senator Barkley last week offered an excuse: when Senator Walsh came to him, "visibly agitated," he advised him to sit tight until the FBI could be got to make...
...first time since the last war the Stadium exercises and confetti battle will not be held, and Class ceremonies will be simplified to include only the customary Senior exercises in Kirkland House Triangle. Alumni reunion classes are substituting brief and serious programs for the more extended ceremonies of normal years...
...minuscule Malta under its huge, puffed-up shadow, there was not a single plane on the island. Only 60 miles from Sicily, Malta was promptly written off by the British as impossible, to defend. But while Italy still controlled Sicily, Malta's war was a seesaw affair of brief, bravura raids and dolce jar niente. Not till the Luftwaffe took over did the real pasting come, and Malta become history's most heavily bombed island...