Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President spent 21 minutes in the Homestead plant (armor plate), 15 minutes at the Mesta Machine Co. At Terrace Village, $14,000,000 project of the U. S. Housing Authority, he gave the keys of a four-room apartment to Steelworker Lester Churchfield, with a brief, extemporaneous speech on the meaning of housing and defense: "As long as they know that their Government is sympathetically working to protect their jobs and to better their homes, we can be confident that if the need arises the people themselves will wholeheartedly join in the defense of their homes and the defense...
Coach Dick Harlow, Captain Joe Gardella, and Sherm Gray will make brief speeches from the Dillon balcony. The trek to the field will begin at about 4 o'clock in the Yard with cheerleaders, band members, flares, and colored signs. The procession will wend its way through the Yard and the Houses, crossing Larz Anderson bridge at about 4:40 o'clock...
...onset of fog and mist and damp. An example of what I mean is Lord Beaverbrook. Until a few days ago, he was still a free man. Today asthma has laid its harsh hand as firmly on him as a gaoler receiving an old prisoner back after a brief release...
...plucked by quills, instead of being struck by hammers like the piano's. For an oldtimer, the harpsichord is still stepping lively. Last week Vienna-born Yella Pessl, who has given 70-odd harpsichord programs on the radio (CBS) since last June, returned to the air after a brief vacation. While she was away, her place had been taken by comely Harpsichordist Sylvia Marlowe, who plink-a-plunked not only 18th-Century tunes but rolling, rocking-rhythmed U. S. boogie-woogie...
...brief...