Word: documenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drop any plans to invade. To date no one except top Kremlin and Washington officials knows what else it contained, because after its arrival on the night of Oct. 26. President Kennedy classified it top secret. From the accounts of those who have seen it, it was an unusual document, written in short sentences, obviously at top speed, and with great emotion. It was filled with expressions of fear that events were outracing the statesmen, threatening to tumble out of control. Khrushchev literally begged Kennedy to keep things under control, promised he would do the same. He compared his struggle...
...paper-a summons ordering her to appear in Manhattan Supreme Court to answer a $66,377.50 lawsuit filed by Warner Brothers over a contract squabble. "I feel this is one of the most insensitive things I've ever heard of done to an actress," huffed Carroll, reading the document to her enthralled audience (wild applause...
...President has received intelligence reports and aerial photographs which document the existence of an offensive missile capacity in Cuba. In view of Kennedy's go-slow attitude in the past and the gravity of his words Monday night, neither his appraisal of the military danger nor the resulting commitment of the United States to action can reasonably be disputed...
...document its story of ladies in distress, the magazine assigned a team of eight women reporters to a kind of undercover investigation. According to their findings, black lingerie is so scarce that salespeople are tired of saying "no" to repeated demands. Supposedly black slips and panties delivered to GUM are only dirty brown. Why are lace trimmings so shoddy? Not enough lace or lacemaking machines. Only four factories in the country produce nonrun nylons, and the 83 stocking-repair shops in Moscow are so far behind that it may take a month to fix a pair of hose. Square-fingered...
...mobility he might have used to grow beyond his army themes. Unhappily his latest book. The Thin Red Line, like those preceding it, has not reached out to new subjects or ideas. Instead, it turns back again to the army-still, apparently, the only world Jones knows-to document the complete experience of his infantry company in the U.S. battle for Guadalcanal...