Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hold no brief for Kentucky bourbon distillers as such, but I assure you that . . . the choice of cooperage is not pure custom but is of fundamental importance...
...disaster? The State Department's answer, said Dean Acheson, was "a frank record of an extremely complicated and most unhappy period in the life of a great country." The record, reviewing U.S. relations with China back to 1844, prefaced by a 15-page lawyer's brief by Acheson, and displaying some studied flourishes of erudition, added up to a savage indictment of China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his regime. Acheson summarized...
This eerie blend of fatalism and foolishness formed the background for the Marshall mission. Painstakingly, the white paper gives the now painful details: the suspension of arms shipments to Chiang to allow the U.S. a brief, bootless masquerade as a neutral arbiter between Chiang and the Communists; and General Marshall's increasing infatuation with the dream of building a middle-of-the-road "liberal" party from scattered political factions in a nation at fatal war with itself. From those factions that inspired such hope, only one leader later rose to power: General Li Tsung-jen, who last year proposed...
From an unruffled "rather warm," the London Daily Express weather report rose to a blunt "hot," then staunchly maintained: "fine." For the three-day August bank holiday, a million Londoners migrated to the country and the seaside (where this week they were surprised by brief gales and showers). Throughout the heat spell, authorities had kept an eye on a below-normal water supply; the use of hoses and sprinklers was banned five days a week. In the London zoo, a lion decided that the best way to keep cool was to relax...
...goodbye and "God bless you" to his San Diego friends, who had taught him, he wrote, that "people are still interested in helping their neighbors." Two days later in Balboa Park, 2,000 friends attended his funeral. As Forrest Warren had requested, the preacher kept his remarks brief...