Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deliveries were made and by the hundreds. In 1940 the first U.S. aircraft were flown to Canada's border, solemnly wheeled across (to keep neutrality technically inviolate though the world was burning). R.A.F. Ferry Command pilots then took over, flew the planes, with a brief stop in Newfoundland, across to England. Thus Britain was first to shuttle planes, men and freight across the North Atlantic...
...Anti-Aircraft Artillery School Camp Davis, North Carolina, the Statistic office received word of former 1st Greant Carlson's efforts in the "really high" OCS course there, to use the own expression. Carlson says in brief between-classes letter, "we get a brace at dawn and remain there we turn in for a well-earned sleep night." For the benefit of the the "brace" is the exaggerated of rigid attention required of Candidates at many schools where details are incubated...
...being made for the gradation dance of Class 8-43 to be held at House on May 22, 1943, when Lieutenants-to-be will shed the of Statistical work from their for a brief time to make way receiving of their gold bars the Monday morning...
...almost three years the State Department and the Admiral had been a finger-snap away from the brief act of violence in which the U.S. would take over Martinique. By cunning diplomacy on each side, by inexhaustibly ingenious tactics, the relations were prolonged again & again & again. Each time editors harrumphed: this is it. Each time one side or the other had managed to think of one more démarche, one more protocol, one more possible avenue of negotiation. Even the cutting off of food supplies had failed to shake Admiral Robert. For 35 months he had forced...
...receive the award for the world's worst newspaperman, has been in Europe, where he has managed to miss out on almost every important event, including the beginning of the Russian War. He dubs this a vicious rumor. His paper, the Amalgamated Press, recalls him and in a few brief words, Hope is ejected from the office by a none too friendly managing editor...