Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis, Dewey gave his strategy a trial whirl. After a brief conference, Missouri's National Committeeman Barak T. Mattingly unhesitatingly announced that Tom Dewey would be nominated on the first ballot. He said that Dewey was already assured of 420 of the approximately 547 votes he needed to win, that Missouri was overwhelmingly eager to follow the Dewey standard. For the rest of his "vacation," Tom Dewey would do his best to make that spirit contagious...
...optimists!"); 2) in confessing sins of impurity, no gratuitously graphic details, please; 3) "don't say, 'perhaps I was uncharitable . . . perhaps I told lies. . . .' Did you or didn't you?"; 4) "It is bad manners not to listen to the priest"; 5) "Be blunt, be brief, be gone...
...Charter Day itself, U.N. broadcast brief, cautious messages from leading statesmen...
Laura (by Vera Caspary & George Sklar; produced by H. Clay Blaney in association with S. P. & Roy P. Steckler), like Rebecca, flouted tradition by backing into Broadway from Hollywood. Like Rebecca's, its Broadway sojourn is apt to be brief. The main trouble is that people may not care to see on the stage what they've already seen on the screen, done much better and at a quarter the price...
...even the advertised Eurasian mind of Russia--will come along if a world peace plan is seriously attempted, as a matter of simple self-maintenance. Their conference over, the scientists are heading back to laboratories that the war-now advocates feel they should never have stirred from. Yet their brief lucid interval of thinking on the problem of our time will quite conceivably prove more worthwhile to the cause of peace than the efforts of the small battalion the press maintains for this purpose on a year-round basis...