Word: context
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That paragraph changed everything. It meant that the President of the U.S. had taken the whole atomic-bomb discussion out of the unreal context of "Shall we share the secret of the bomb with the Russians, or shall we keep it?" The secret about the secret was that there was no lasting secret...
...John Albert, Chief of OWI's Intelligence and Analysis Division in New York, tells us that all during the war the Nazi radio "quoted" TIME more often than any other magazine to give believability to its lies-usually by taking sentences out of their context to distort their meaning. (Once a Nazi station that pretended to be broadcasting from inside the U.S. gave itself away by quoting a TIME report four weeks old a few minutes before that same quote came over the air from Berlin-"thus making it clear that the same issue had reached both stations...
...Committee ever lose sight of the fact that all present day education lives in the context of ages of education. Still more important is their pervasive understanding of the dynamics of social and economic life and the constant pressure upon education to adapt itself to social economic changes that in the aggregate compose a revolution...
...credit side, "Can't Help Singing" has some good songs which, unfortunately for this movie's box-office, sound better out of context in the juke box. Occasionally, too there is some comic relief by Akim Tamiroff and others that departs from pattern...
...color) the conclave of great ships and the deadly surge shoreward of landing craft under fire, among the all but unbelievable lights and tints of a sea daybreak. In one of the best shots of all, sand and sea and sky combine colors so tender, in so untender a context, that for a moment all color and action seem annulled, as if this prenatal-like stillness were the dead center of history's uncontrollable storm...