Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Notable Exception. Though the story aroused skepticism among experts, none were willing to dismiss it outright. But Japanese experts said they had perceived no signs of trouble. And at week's end, the New China News Agency published a brief story that mentioned both Mao and Lin as "personally" approving posthumous honors for ten Chinese soldiers who fell in clashes with the Soviets...
Terrence McNally, another funny playwright, is the author of the second half of the bill. Next . His brief opus is the story of a 48-year-old man who is mistakenly called in for an induction physical. The physical, conducted by an inhuman army nurse, reduces the man, an already sad individual, to a totally demoralized lump of soggy flesh...
...bulldozer tracks are still plainly visible on the tundra today, testimony to the slowness of the land's ability to heal itself. But the basic problem is that most of the Arctic lies on a hard foundation of permafrost-ever-frozen ground that prevents drainage. In the brief summer months, a thin cover of tundra soil thaws a foot deep. But if the ground is gouged by heavy equipment, the permafrost is exposed. When it thaws, it turns into a small rivulet that continues to erode its banks, growing ever larger over the years. The permafrost also makes waste...
...friend-of-the-court brief, 17 prominent lawyers argued that "a particular respected church" (the Roman Catholic Church, which fought against liberalization of abortion laws) had no right to impose its religious views on the state. Another amicus brief was signed by 178 deans and other professors of medical schools across the U.S.* Their brief spoke of a "hard-almost brutal-reality." The statute that was "designed in 1850 to protect women from serious risks to life and health," they declared, "has in modern times become a scourge...
Competition arose to test the newfound sense of journalistic purpose. In 1894 the Daily News was founded which enjoyed a brief but respectable history, and suffered in a bitter and somewhat violent rivalry with the entrenched CRIMSON. The new-comer finally folded in 1895, and loyal Crimeds gathered in the Sanctum under the hastily constructed banner, "No News is Good News...