Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finnish General Hjalmar Siilasvuo, with five divisions, began a drive from the south, slowly pushed the Germans back. With their direct route to Germany cut off, the Nazis could retreat into Norway or into neutral Sweden. But there was no question of peaceful surrender to the Finns, as the armistice framers seemed to expect-few Germans would willingly follow the road to a Russian prison camp...
...Lord Clive, 38, a direct descendant of Clive of India. One of the tallest men in the House of Lords, he sat there as 17th Baron Darcy de Knayth, a peerage created by Edward III. A fighter pilot in the R.A.F., he was killed last year...
...widely reprinted, had an electric effect. Around him rallied almost overnight, thousands of Americans, most of them political amateurs, who had suddenly found a spokesman. Among them were young Oren Root Jr., who promptly formed the Willkie Clubs, and, FORTUNE Editor Russell Davenport, who resigned his editorial job to direct the Willkie campaign, begun just two months before the Republican convention...
...Canadian provinces were ready for an important venture in democracy this week. Saskatchewan and Alberta had added new seats to their Legislatures, to be filled by the armed services. No other province or U.S. state had ever tried this kind of direct soldier representation...
...Army notifying the mayors of the U.S. of the return of soldiers from combat areas? Why not write the parents direct? We have no interest in building up a political organization. . . . Having two sons, one in France now, and one just returned, it seems best not to sign this...