Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around, due to the Government's all-for-the-Army emergency economy) was a succession of border intrusions, in which many observers saw true Nazi rhythm. From Germany, from East Prussia, even by air from Free Danzig, came Nazi "gangs" to provoke the alert Polish guards into brief scuffles from which four deaths resulted-extreme casualties of the war of nerves. At week's end the Polish radio, protesting that "the limit of Polish patience is very near," turned from straightforward reporting of developments to a satiric debunking of the provocative propaganda its people were hearing from over...
...newspapers printed all the war news they could get. In the East it crowded most other news off the front pages. The supposed suicide of Bolivia's Strongman German Busch and the death of Sidney Howard (see p. 39) got brief treatment the day after Russia and Germany signed their Non-Aggression Pact. But there were exceptions. The Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger thought the second indictment of Moe Annenberg* was equally big news that day and gave a four-column headline to it. And throughout the week the New York Herald Tribune consistently played down the bad news, played...
Intended as a standard handbook on diplomatic theory, procedure and preparation of novices for the foreign service, Diplomacy is clearly, suavely, concisely written, with scarcely a dash of famed Nicolson irony to spice its correct Protocole. Its brief, packed 264 pages review diplomatic practice from the moment when cavemen first thought it would be a good idea to have an immune messenger to call time-out in their club fights, down to the present when "total warriors" tend to think diplomatic immunity is oldfashioned...
...dots and dashes. Astronomer Fisher and associates figured that if the signal traveled 36,030,000 miles and back at 186,000 mi. a second, the round trip would take 6 min. 28 sec. The key was tapped. For 6 min. 28 sec. everyone waited. Nothing happened. After a brief pause, WOR switched Baldwin off its hookup, Ben Bernie on. A few diehards argued that they had heard something, but officially the result of the experiment was "negative." WOR's Chief Engineer J. R. Poppele, who was in on the 1924 experiment, cheerfully announced that he would try again...
...Soviet Mongols were still on the "wrong" side of the Khalka River, and the Japanese were "reluctant" to dislodge them. Manchukuoan Government-controlled newspapers hinted that if the Soviet Union the would negotiate Japan was ready to call the two months of border warfare a draw. But after a brief lull heavy artillery was again booming along the Khalka as the Soviet Mongols were reported attacking...