Word: directed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio time was still good. It was, said Mr. Lewis. Hero Lindbergh then drafted a speech. His wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer of repute (Listen! The Wind, North to the Orient), smoothed out the draft, typed the finished version, left on it the hallmark of her husband's direct simplicity...
...whose pretty wife Paulina is Commissar of Fisheries and is very close to Stalin, may well have been taken by surprise. If so, his astonishment last week must have mounted hourly. No sooner had the German-Russian pact been hailed as thwarting the foul design of British Tories to direct German expansion to the East than the German Army did what (in the Russian view) Tories had failed to accomplish-i.e., directed German expansion to the East...
...unrestricted submarine warfare entitled Britain to retaliate, and by solemnly adding that "no blockade of Germany in the formal sense of the term has been declared." It was to be simple strangulation: thoroughgoing, but informal. The idea was, not only to prevent anything helpful from reaching Germany direct, but to "ration" Germany's neutral neighbors so as to make sure no helpful surpluses would spill over their borders into Hitlerland...
...subject of propaganda most editorialists were careful to warn their readers against claims made by both sides in the war. But they could not resist the chance to take a sideswipe at radio. Wrote the Chicago Tribune: "Radio permits direct connection with virtually every European nation. The official liars will be as busy as they were a quarter of a century ago . . . but this time we will be able to listen to both liars and compare their claims...
...tall, white stone building in Bloomsbury (taken over from the University of London), a mile away from Fleet Street. Here are issued all official press bulletins. A teletype printer flashes them to newsrooms and agencies in Fleet Street. But most reporters, British and foreign alike, get their news direct from the mimeograph, write their copy in the great hundred-foot-square entrance hall of the Ministry, gas masks slung over their shoulders as they work, surrounded by thick mugs of bitter India...