Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...return of General Douglas MacArthur to his native land, after four years of war and three as master of Japan, will be an event. For a brief moment last week it looked as if that event were about to happen...
...Dobson, a creature of Britain's Humorist ("incomparable Max") Beerbohm was a fatal lady with an unlimited appeal to men-and this despite the fact that she was not strictly beautiful ("Her eyes were a trifle large, and their lashes longer than they need have been"). On a brief visit to Oxford, she bewitched the entire undergraduate population to such a degree of unrequited passion that all save one committed suicide by jumping into the Isis during Eights Week, the name of their lady on their lips. Somewhat touched, Zuleika then moved on to Cambridge...
...week's end, Israel's government announced that it would order Israeli forces to cease fire on the U.N. deadline, if the Arabs did the same. On the deadline, Arabs asked for another day and a half to discuss the truce order among themselves. But the brief hope for immediate peace flickered out when Arab spokesmen added a condition which the Jews would not accept: Israel's government must cease to function before the Arabs would consider a truce...
Americans had been watching Andrei Gromyko, off & on, for nine years, ever since he arrived in Washington in 1939, a tall, dark, diffident young man with darting, unfixed eyes. He had not changed much, just grown a little heavier; his brief smiles (which at first made his new diplomatic acquaintances feel they might somehow "get across" to this Russian) were briefer than before. He would leave his name behind in the U.S. vernacular: "to pull a gromyko"-meaning, variously, to walk out or to be a robot reiterating the reflexive...
Second Wave. Next day the Exchange was again swamped with buying. Records fell right & left. In Saturday's brief two-hour session, 2,590,000 shares changed hands-the biggest Saturday turnover since the feverish beginnings of NRA in 1933. As in the hectic days of 1929, single blocs of 3,000 shares and more changed hands without driving down the price (e.g., Packard Motor closed up ⅛ after one bloc of 21,000 shares was sold...