Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week the meeting was more remembered than the charter. Acrid H. G. Wells had called it "an ambiguous document, full of holes and escape clauses." An American cynic had called it the great est public document since the Republican Party platform of 1936. The simple fact was that the Atlantic Charter had kindled no fires. Most of the fires that had raged in the world in the twelvemonth were made by the enemies of the U.S. and Great Britain...
Murray's statement was not much more indifferent to the future of price control than the report which precipitated the commotion. That document had a strangely "only yesterday" look, as if its authors had never heard of the fight against inflation, or did not believe what they had heard...
...dispatches did not precisely identify the source of this document, but they made it clear that U.S. military men in Cairo approved its main conclusions: 1) the British forces now in Egypt, with all their U.S. planes, tanks and guns, cannot hold Suez and North Africa; 2) only a U.S. expeditionary force can prevent a disaster which, at this stage of the war, might be worse than the defeat of France...
...decreased. Later reissued in printed form, this report has been sent to colleges and universities all over the country, and served as the basis for discussion at several Faculty meetings a few years ago. A year later the Council issued a second "education" report, implementing and expanding the 1939 document...
Whatever its shortcomings as a kid-glove social document, This Above All is a remarkably good love story. WAAF-Girl Joan Fontaine, who has what it takes to play lady-in-a-haystack, quietly meets her man (Mr. Power) in the blackout, goes away with him to a seaside resort, where he leaves her, eventually rejoins him for keeps after the Luftwaffe has almost battered his brains out in a London bombing. It is a restrained, sensitive, appealing performance-a tribute to beauteous Joan Fontaine, to the intelligent direction of Anatole Litvak, and to the painstaking coaching of Director Alfred...