Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aside by an effort of good sportsmanship, as was shown four years ago when anti-Roosevelt businessmen rallied generally to pledge cooperation to the man elected by the Democratic majority. That pledge did not prove lasting, and for a good reason: good sportsmanship may banish bitterness engendered in the brief heat of a campaign, but it cannot make men believe in things which they have come to distrust progressively over a period of years...
...into a $90-a-month duplex. Three weeks ago he began checking on what offices, what seat, what committees a Nebraska junior Senator might get. A week before Election Day he predicted his majority within 5,000 votes. Last week Tortoise Butler beat Hare Cochran, settled down to a brief vacation at his only hobbies: hunting, working on his farm, and playing "pitch...
...feeling for statesmanlike discretion. When he felt exuberant sometimes he was downright careless with words. He once called Hitler "a coward." He endorsed sanctions against Italy: "Why shoot a man when you can starve him to death?" On a quiet Thursday morning in December 1938, he typed out a brief statement of U. S. foreign policy...
Because the jellylike body tissues tremble for a brief instant after every "blow" from the heart, after-vibrations warp part of the record. Hence Dr. Starr believes that his machine will never attain "highest precision." Nevertheless it is good enough to: 1) detect early, hitherto invisible cases of heart disease; 2) show the relation between high blood pressure and heart function; 3) differentiate between various types of heart disease...
...more than usual interest to U. S. audiences is the appearance of John Lodge. Grandson of Massachusetts' famed isolationist Senator, Henry Cabot Lodge, brother of its current, handsome Senator of the same name, Lodge is a former Harvardman and Manhattan lawyer with a brief, obscure Hollywood movie career...