Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duke had not yet appeared. Winant obligingly climbed back in his plane, to keep from embarrassing the Duke. As Ambassador to the knee-breeched Court, Winant is unworldly and unkempt as ever. He arrived with one grey suit, which promptly fell into baggy-kneed disrepair. His conversations are brief sentences between long, groping pauses, long minutes of staring at the floor...
...cadets made it interesting for a while at Hanover last week, even taking a brief lead on two occasions in the opening period. Tom Ray tallied first and then, after Jack Riley counted for the Green, Captain Fred Tate sent the visitors ahead for the second time. By the end of the first 20 minutes however, the Green was out in front by a 5-2 count and never encountered trouble thereafter...
Unannounced beforehand, the extensive gifts were revealed by President Conant in his brief address to the 300 invited guests in the Library's Reading Room. The books and manuscripts include works of John Keats, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Blake...
...Colonel's brief fling as a patriotic supporter of the Administration's war effort was definitely over. Once again he was out in front as the President's fiercest critic. One month after the Tribune's Pearl Harbor pledge to let bygones be bygones for unity's sake, it announced abruptly that, if its isolationist ideas had been followed, "the nation would have been spared much of the bitter news of recent days." Colonel Knox's rival News fished up a few Tribune pearls from pre-Pearl Harbor days...
...helmet, admitted that he never believed in God before. Chaplains and others all agree that more people believe in God since the war has begun. The sight of a soldier sitting by a machine gun reading a Bible is not uncommon in Bataan or Corregidor. Soldiers and sailors pen brief notes to the chaplains asking for New Testaments, and several of the chaplains have passed out over 2,000 copies since...