Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first day of my arrival in Asunción for the inauguration of Paraguay's new President I looked up an old friend of mine to see whether he could brief me on the anti-government side of Paraguay's political situation. We talked for a while and, to prove his points, he promised to put me in touch with the underground...
...COLLECTS: "SOS messages expressing, in as brief terms as possible, the needs of the church ... A collect, like a telegram, ought to say what it wants to say in a very few words, and at the same time be intelligible...
Exceeding the speed of sound in a brief power dive is not the same thing as flying continuously faster than sound in level flight. U.S. planes are rumored to have done it too. But if they have, the military has chosen to keep...
When he turned up in Manhattan early last week for the funeral of onetime Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Tom Dewey had only one brief comment on his campaign. He promised newsmen that when it got under way, it would be "rugged and extensive...
...week's end the railroads got a reprieve. Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall asked that his Intelligence officers be allowed to screen Clark's 4,000-page brief, lest potential enemies learn too much about the strategic use of the railroads. Railroad men hoped that Army red tape might delay the suit indefinitely...