Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brief, there is hardly a front where the United Nations are fighting -from the water-logged trenches along the Yangtze to the frozen steppes above Rostov, from pea-soup air above the North Sea to the deserts of Africa and the steaming jungles of New Guinea and Guadalcanal-but what at least one of TIME'S writers in New York can tell you first hand just what it feels like to be there with our fighting men, and fill in the cables from TIME'S regular correspondents from their own personal knowledge of the battlefronts of this...
...seriously injured in a brawl with some Fascist roughs brought about by a rare fit of indignation on his part in 1948, and his health was further impaired by a spell in a concentration camp under the brief Communist dictatorship of 1952. Thereafter his once considerable vitality seems to have deserted him. . . . From being a premature, he became a forgotten man. His immediate needs were relieved by a small Civil-List pension...
Under the auspices of the Brazilian Government and Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha, Winchell whirled about the country. He talked with big & little Brazilians, to U.S. officers and men stationed in Brazil. In São Paulo's big industrial plants he made brief translated talks to the workers. His biggest official hit was at a press banquet in Rio when he raised his cup of coffee to the level of his Brazilian host's cup and gave this toast: "Never above you-never beneath you-always beside you." The Brazilian press adopted the toast as a slogan...
Among the guerrillas Sergei met Fyodor, whose pregnant wife had been bayoneted to death by Nazis, his child daughter raped. Fyodor and Sergei were sent to dynamite a Nazi radio station. Fyodor dispatched a Nazi sentry with "a brief flash of his knife blade." The Germans were "perfect targets." Sergei's and Fyodor's bullets "tore into their bodies." The two Russians dashed home in a stolen Nazi truck...
...facts of Gibbs's life offer little temptation to a biographer. He was born in New Haven (1839). He went to Yale. He taught at Yale. He died in New Haven (1903). He never married. Save for a brief period of postgraduate work in France and Germany, he saw little more of the world outside than Philosopher Immanuel Kant (who never left his native Königsberg). "His life was nothing but self and science and then he tore the self away...