Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Partner Corcoran left Government service for a fat private Washington law practice, Partner Cohen faded from the Washington spotlight. He volunteered as adviser to U.S. Ambassador John G. Winant in London to help speed Lend-Lease. After a brief spell in England he returned to Washington. Although he dropped off the Government payroll, he stayed in the background, occasionally helping to draft a bill, to give advice. He turned down several jobs offered by Franklin Roosevelt. Still an ardent New Dealer, it was winning the war that seemed important now. He was waiting for the spot in which...
...whom Pershing called the finest officer in World War I; whom another Chief of Staff once compared to Stonewall Jackson; of whom a well-informed civilian observer recently said: "If George Marshall is no good, God help the U.S." Last week a responsible official who holds no great brief for "the Army mind," yet is in constant contact with General Marshall and the Army, said of him: "I do not know any other officer who could have done the job he has done quite so well...
Meryl Forst, second string back who fills in at tailback and wingback for Coach Tuss McLaughry, looked particularly good in the brief session. Frost will probably be sued for spot plays this afternoon...
...submarines harried them from the sea. U.S. planes pounded them from the heavens. During those brief periods when there was a rift in the nearly perpetual mists, U.S. and Canadian pilots swooped down on their shore installations and strafed their shipping. Flying blind, the pilots dropped destruction through the fog bank. Japanese losses during more than three months of raids, according to the U.S. Navy...
...simpler and more human. It tells of a guy (Eddie Dowling) in a small-town Texas jail who, before he is killed by a mob, talks through the bars of his cell with the jail's wispish slavey of a cook (Julie Haydon). Theirs is a brief rapprochement, a doomed romance, of two desperately lonely, anonymous souls. But the scene, quilted down with words, is merely touching where it ought to be intense...