Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign policy debate scheduled in the French Assembly next week which could easily topple France's shaky cabinet, he kept Premier Bidault constantly informed of the trend of talk at the Quai d'Orsay, and once Acheson and Bevin had to wait while Schuman rushed off to brief an emergency cabinet session. The Reds promptly set up a howl that Schuman was selling France down the Rhine. The Communist L'Humanité gibed: "Serons! nous cocacolonisés? [Will we be Coca-Colonized...
...about to take pity on them and go to shore when another rowboat, occupied by two Russian women, approached. The guards hailed the newly arrived boat, and after a brief but wordy exchange both boats rowed to the shore where they dispossessed the two women, expropriated their less leaky boat and resumed their post... I never saw more rugged souls...
Arthur Godfrey has confessed to a growing interest in "atomic energy and fission, nuclear fission, and all those things." Fortnight ago he invited Physicist Dr. Wendell C. Peacock to give a brief atomic run-through on Arthur Godfrey and His Friends (Wed. 8 p.m., CBS-TV). The interview stalled when jittery bobby-soxers in the studio audience began to rustle impatiently for the program's handsome, 21-year-old Crooner Bill Lawrence. Scolded Godfrey: "I'm not very happy about the reception you folks give to a serious discussion when you come in here ... I'd like...
Monro's men finally clicked in the second period and began to hold the game "on the carpet" in front of the Blue goal. After a brief Yale push to midfield, Wolf picked up the rebound of a long Drake boot and pumped...
...daily practices proceed as though Saturday's contest were just another game, the squad is continually reminded that this is Yale Week. Each night, red flares have been lighted on the fence surrounding the practice area. And last night, as the team trooped into Dillon Field House for a brief skull session after its workout, a phonograph blared out Harvard songs from the Band's "Ivy League" and "Half Time" albums...