Word: briefing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Reflecting perhaps a general trend. The Dartmouth would like to state at this time that it holds no brief for the editorial policy of The Sun. For the benefit of little girls and little boys in Hanover, White River Junction, Lebanon and Norwich, we categorically deny the actual presence of a Santa Claus. There is no Santa Claus, there never has been one, and there never will...
That only 50 undergraduates out of a total of 5800 can skate and play hockey at the expense and with the facilities of the University is deemed deplorable by a surprisingly large number of students those days, and a brief summing up of the situation is perhaps in order...
Surprisingly enough for a musical, "Call Me Mister" has serious overtones. In one brief scene outside a trucking employment agency, where five men, including two Negroes, are remembering with pride their work together on the Red Ball Express, the whole problem of the Negro in America is pointed up by the ironic ending when only the three white men are hired for the civilian trucking job. And again, the Southern Senator sequence is not only good burlesque, but a serious commentary on bigotry and the unprincipled use of the veteran vote in America...
...something like Dreamer Dick, we would have more freedom. . . . Some device other than the dream might be used. . . . A simple method would be to have him curl up with a history book. . . ." Hearst to Greene: "If we find [the first series] is not a success, of course we can brief it, but if it is a success it should be a long series...
...postwar peak of 96,519 cars a week, canceled their shutdown orders, kept producing almost without interruption. But the strike may well cause a break in the all-important flow of supplies to automakers in a few weeks, force some of the plants to shut down then for a brief period...