Word: gist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rundstedt's successor as commander in chief in the West. It is a sign of Hitler's mesmeric hold on his field marshal that with the German front crumbling everywhere, Kesselring can still describe as "lucid" Hitler's analysis of the situation, the gist of which was that the Russians could be crushed, after which the combined German armies would sweep the Americans, British and French from the Continent. Kesselring was determined to "hang on" in the West until the "decision in the East" came. Kesselring was still hanging...
...arrived for the Melbourne matches an hour and a half early. And one paper, the Melbourne Argus, felt called upon to write an open letter to Australia's two 19-year-old tennis prodigies, Lewis Hoad and Ken Rosewall, trying to take the pressure off the youngsters. Gist of the letter: "If you lose, it will not be a major tragedy in Australian history...
...first Einstein prize in 1951, a medal from Columbia in 1951 ("They were supposed to give me an honorary degree, but I was too young"), Schwinger believes that his present work will be the most significant. To a layman he can explain it only in generalities. The gist of his effort is to force modern physics to a showdown. The present physical theories are so complicated that they need an enormous amount of experimental work to check their validity. Schwinger aims to recast quantum mechanics so that these physical theories, if false, would reduce to self-contradictions...
This argument is countered by the fact that the gist of the book became known to millions who never read it. Kinsey's work expresses and strengthens an attitude that can be dangerous: the idea that there is morality in numbers...
That was the gist of an unflattering report presented to the U.S. Senate by a group of American businessmen recently returned from Paris. French feelings were hurt: U.S. diplomats in France grumbled that such sweeping accusations do more harm than good. Yet few people in a position to know, in France or the U.S., seriously question the conclusion. France has become the sick man of Europe...