Word: gist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police the boundaries of chaos in Asia, was not fooled. Never for a minute did he believe the U.S. secure in the face of the Red advance. He had expressed his forebodings to scores of American visitors to Tokyo. No quotation of any particular interview was allowed, but the gist, delivered in a resonant baritone, ran something like this: "Whether you like it or not, most of the human race lives around this Pacific basin. Here in Asia there are great de mands, great dangers, great opportunities -all neglected by the United States...
Stalin demolished the "false" foundations of the Marr theory, discoursed at length on vocabulary, morphology, grammar, syntax, the historical and social origins of dialects, patois, and minority languages. The gist of Stalin's wordy, labyrinthian message was that "the Russian language has remained in the main the same as it was before the October upheaval . . . Language is created for the purpose of serving society as a whole . . . [Language] is all-national." Philologist Stalin savagely denounced Marr as a vulgarizer of Marxism, called him arrogant, alien, and demanded the liquidation of the "Marr clique" as saboteurs...
...handbills and placards said that the demonstrating students were out to help the high-school teachers get more money. Gist of the teachers' demands: $600-a-year raises all around (on salaries ranging from $2,500 to $5,325*) to meet rising living costs. Until they got the raises, the teachers had announced, they would boycott all extracurricular activities. They would refuse to coach athletics, direct school plays, advise the editors of student papers and yearbooks, supervise student clubs or chaperon school proms...
...gist of your McCarthy editorial of April 14 seems to be that Lattimore "struck a tangent" to the communist line, once a long time ago, at a point where anybody could, and where everybody did but "may not like to remember it," and finally that Lattimore diverges all over the place, so isn't McCarthy a heel anyway...
FIRST ONE IN 1942. Gist of the account: as part of its guided-missile program, the Navy has developed a revolutionary type aircraft, a combination helicopter and jet plane capable of outflying any other; it is this plane that is the flying saucer...