Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...momentousness of the news could be judged by the headlines it displaced. Until the bulletin from Moscow, the big news everywhere was of the U.S. Seventh Fleet steaming to within gun range of Communist China to evacuate, come war or high water, Chiang's Nationalists from the Tachen Islands. The British Commonwealth prime ministers assembled in London could talk of nothing else; Britain's Laborites cried that it surely meant war and demanded that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden beg Premier Chou En-lai for peace. That kind of fear of imminent war in the Formosa Strait (an impression...
Physicist RALPH E. LAPP, in the BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS...
...Hint. The New York Times, which had already printed its last edition, got the wire-service stories in time to put out 24,400 copies of a "Late City Extra" with a 450-word bulletin dropped into Page One. The Times Sunday Magazine hastily pulled a Seventh Fleet picture off its front cover, substituted one of Bulganin, Mao and Khrushchev. The Russian censors, swamped by the flood of words, let many a piece of copy slip through which ordinarily might have been spiked; e.g., A.P. reported: "Muscovites questioned at random appeared bored at the news. 'What difference does...
...office has been far more than a tour director, however. Last spring it sent to 1,500 universities throughout the world a bulletin in student reactions to the Supreme Court's segregation decision. And each summer, NSA runs a seminar to train American college leaders in the intricacies of international student problems...
after graduating, Lamont was co-author in 1936 of an article intended for he Alumni Bulletin, listing and discussing radicals who had attended the College. "Harvard long ago learned," hem wrote, "that the rebels and heretics of today are the leaders accepted by tomorrow. The stamp of the New England Puritan aristocracy is all over it--its economic conservatism along with its tolerance of dissent." The Bulletin refused to print his article, fearing it would prevent conservative alumni from contributing to the Tercentenary Fund. But later it appeared in the Advocate and in the Nation...