Word: informant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking for myself, wish you would go a step further and inform the public about the attendance at his shows. This, I think you will admit, would give a truer picture of Sinatra in Australia...
While I was considering the bill in question, I was contacted by one of the General Authorities of the church. He did this specifically to inform me that, while many individuals among the General Authorities and among the church membership were strongly in favor of the Sunday Closing Law, the church as an organization was not attempting to influence my decision. The decision, a difficult one, was made for the reasons set forth in my veto message. This decision in no wise represented a "revolt" against the church...
...violations were largely overlooked by the committee, which urged that girls continue to be responsible for each other. This provision, however, remained so universally disliked and disregarded that last fall Student Government Association followed the course of least resistance and abolished it. "Rightly or wrongly, the code not to inform is deeply ingrained in all of you," Dean Kathleen O. Elliott commented. In general, Annex undergraduates supported the paradoxical position that social pressure actually works more, rather than less effectively when students are not forced to report one another...
Could someone install a device on the common variety of telephone which will inform the telephone user, even though he is on the phone, when someone is trying to contact him ? Perhaps a light could flash, a buzzer buzz, or even a small shock be provided for those who still refuse to give up the line when someone is desperately trying the number...
...Only Tactful." As soon as Greek and Turk reached agreement in Zurich, the Foreign Ministers of the two countries flew off to sell it in London. ("It would seem only tactful to inform the British government," purred Greece's Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza.) With equal promptness, Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd summoned to London Dr. Fazil Kuchuk, leader of the Turkish Cypriot community, and swart-bearded Archbishop Makarios, whom the British exiled from Cyprus three years ago on charges of encouraging violence. This week the prelate whom the British press called a terrorist will sit down with Selwyn...