Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Baker has agreed to brief the HarBus and the CRIMSON after each MBA and full Faculty meeting...
Border disturbances last week broke a brief eleven-day calm in the area...
...communiqué explains in brief why he was one of the 20th century's great military leaders. He may not have been a grand master of strategy or tactics; yet, better than any other commander of his time save George Marshall, Ike understood what is most important in modern warfare: organization and coordination. He was, as Winston Churchill noted, a great "creative, constructive and combining genius." It is doubtful that anyone else, again save Marshall, could have melded the competitive British and American forces?not to mention the Canadians, Free French, Poles, Czechs, Dutch and assorted others?into so formidable...
Eavesdropping Disclosure. In a brief statement concurring with the court, however, Justice Potter Stewart twitted Griswold and Government lawyers for having misunderstood the earlier holding in one important respect. All the court had done, said Stewart, was to require eavesdropping disclosure "where the surveillance violated the Fourth Amendment. We did not decide that any of the surveillances did violate the Fourth Amendment." Eavesdropping that is necessary to national security may well be legal, he said, and lower court judges may be free to decide that issue in chambers, without the defendant's participation. Thus, Stewart intimates, public disclosure...
Despite their relatively brief collaboration, the quartet displays a seasoned, settled style-almost as if it had been playing together for a decade. Its tone is unfailingly rich and clear; its mastery of the ensemble form is so complete that even when performing with as experienced a musician as Pianist Artur Rubinstein its relative youth as a quartet is not all apparent...