Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brief career at the side of the anti-Axis powers he had wrought good and evil. Dakar had fallen to the Allies without a shot. The progress of the U.S. campaign had been sped. But Darlan's assumption of power had also unleashed a storm of anger and criticism among Allied peoples, widening dangerously the already existing split between the supporters of Vichy and De Gaulle. It had involved the U.S. in a tangled skein of international politics which was becoming more & more involved. Termed by President Roosevelt a "temporary expediency," the Darlan regime was gaining a firmer foothold...
...asking for an interview, expected no results. But several days later he was roused by a midnight call from the Foreign Office. Cassidy rushed over, was amazed to find a letter from Stalin: "Dear Gospodin (Mr.) Cassidy: Owing to the pressure of work ... I shall confine myself to a brief written answer. . . ." This was the famed letter in which Stalin called for Second Front...
...William Henry Beveridge by last week was second only to Winston Churchill as Britain's most popular man. Britons had bought more than 200,000 full texts of his plan for post-war social security. The Ministry of Information was bringing out a threepenny Beveridge Report in Brief and every Army officer was to be supplied with this brief for the instruction of rankers. Sir William's Plan had become so popular with the people that the political parties were falling over each other proclaiming its principles their...
...volume the treasures ... of art which are housed in the museums of North America." Authors are Regina Shoolman, secretary of the American Institute for Iranian Art and Archeology, and Charles E. Slatkin of Brooklyn. In 295 pages of critical text they gloss the book's pictures with 17 brief, illuminating guides to periods and schools of the world...
...task forces, which draw off the opponent's power, leaving openings for thrusts by a suddenly unveiled major attack in another direction. Battle Checkers and Pacific Defense are post-Pearl Harbor games much advertised. The weakness of the first is that it is too simple and too brief; of the second that the rules are enormously complex and frustratingly detailed...