Word: information
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said John Bricker: "Is that the kind of leadership which is indispensable for keeping America's position of leadership in the world order? War in the Pacific might not have occurred if the American people had been informed of the Japanese menace and we had been prepared. I say to you that ignorance of the Administration, or its failure to inform the public, whichever it was, is one of the gravest derelictions in all our history...
...categoric correctitude, Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov called in the foreign press. He wanted the world to know: 1) that the Red Army had gone beyond Soviet frontiers for the first time since the Germans attacked in June 1941; 2) that the Kremlin had taken pains to inform London and Washington of the step in advance...
Whenever I tried to inform some self-named realist of our tremendous resources, he'd thrust out his bay window (substitute for brains) and ask for "statistics, little lady, statistics" - you know...
...merchant seaman. On Christmas Day, Child No. 12, young James, joined the Marines. Last week, after writing her usual dozen letters to her far-flung family, Mrs. Van Coutren made it a baker's dozen with a business like report to Franklin Roosevelt: "I am sorry to inform you, Mr. President, that the source of supply is now exhausted. . . .Selective Service will have to look elsewhere...
...hoped that Elmer's explanation would not wholly discombobulate a program seriously intended to inform...