Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work, 20 years; Wilhelm Keppler, Hitler's economic adviser, ten years. When mousy little Otto Dietrich, Hitler's press chief, heard his sentence he turned to one of his tall G.I. guards, held up seven fingers and asked: "Sieben?" The guard confirmed his question with a brief nod and gently steered him from the room...
Onetime Shimmy Queen Gilda Gray, 47, sought $1,000,000 from Columbia Pictures for alleged damages caused by a movie named Gilda, starring "an actress named Rita Hayworth." Charged Gilda: the picture invades not only the privacy of her life, but even that of her shimmy, which the brief defined as "a rhythmical shivering and shaking of parts of the body, synchronized and performed to a personalized syncopated musical rhythm...
They were picked by the nominating committee of the Council; others who wish to run will have to file a petition with 25 names before 5 p.m. next Wednesday. All the nominated men have to do is to signify assent and hand in a brief biography and picture...
...Democrats were sure that there was a conspiracy among the Republicans to badger the Democratic leadership at every turn. When Texas' Tom Connally mildly urged his colleagues to be as brief as possible, Republicans burst into a solid hour of angry recriminations...
According to Alfred M. Goodloe '50, chairman of the present N.S.A delegation, ballots will be of the new picture type and will include brief biographies of the candidates. The polls will be open during lunch and dinner in the House dining halls and in the Union...