Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fairfield's references to the Federal Bureau of investigation are inaccurate, distorted and untrue. Since it is only fair that you give this communication the same prominence which you afforded the statements of Mr. Fairfield, I shall necessarily be brief in my comments concerning his articles...
...Defense Attorney Leon Sin clair Jr., 13, who is tall, slender, brown-haired, and the "most avid reader" in his class, he is using our material to prepare a preliminary brief and has set out to get more information. In this quest he is working closely with the "defendant," a twelve-year-old seventh-grader of Italian descent, who has taken his role seriously enough to write to family relatives in Sicily and to Giuliano himself (no reply, as yet). Meanwhile, he is coaching his three witnesses in their testimony...
...spontaneous" walkout. Last week, Lewis rumbled out a new and fancy phrase for it. The heavy supply of coal on hand, said the chief, had produced "menacing instability" in the industry, threatening the national economy, and even the United Mine Workers. To correct this situation, Lewis proclaimed "a brief stabilizing period of inaction...
...timeless process of insult, hatred, frustration, collapse and final resigned slavery cannot be jammed into 90 brief minutes without showing the strain. "Home of the Brave" is a good motion picture. It is not, unfortunately, an excellent one, and its influence may be less than hoped for. In order to get their point across and make it somewhat palatable, which may or may not be a weakness, the producers have chosen to fall back on the ancient vehicle of psychiatry to explain the important issues. They have further disturbed the story of a young Negro surveyor alone among white soldiers...
...started when a harassed freshman fied his Yard room to study for an impending final, while his bon vivant roommate held a brief but boisterous testimonial to the temporary end of his own exams...