Word: informals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member of the armed services, I am faced, for the first time in my life, with a group of men who are near illiterates. They do not read to enlighten themselves, or to inform, or even to entertain. If it hasn't got pictures, most of them are stuck. What is the result? In a first-class bureaucracy like the modern army or navy or air force, with its myriad regulations which one must be able to interpret and analyze to get along, we have boys who do not know what they are doing, or why, and never will...
TIME'S Letters Department finally located Concertmaster Gingold, who had moved from Detroit to Cleveland, and forwarded his address to Reader Efrati. A few weeks later, back came a letter from Efrati announcing that his hunch was right. "I am happy to inform you," he wrote, "that Mr. Josef Gingold has replied to my letter, and he is the cousin I have been looking for during the past 13 years...
...coming Howard Pyle, will set the governors off on a Chautauqua-like swing through their own states, commencing next fall, to spread the Eisenhower faith and philosophy. Last week Pyle had signed up 15 prospective barnstormers. "A governor," Ike explained, "has the chore of trying to inform the people in his state so that they will in turn support reasonable programs nationally as well as statewide...
...break his chain. He went to fight for the Greeks in their war of liberation from the Turks. In the midst of it all, he still found time to turn out verse and to twit an erring friend back home: "Pray who is the lady? The papers merely inform by dint of asterisks that she is somebody's wife and has children ... It is to be hoped that the jury will be bachelors...
...Moslem. There is but one God, and Mohammed is his prophet." Igram was re-elected president for another year. Anxious to unite all scattered North American Moslems (estimated at 32,600) in his society, he disclaims militant proselytizing: "We don't want to convert others, just inform them...