Word: informativeness
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...even Dan Rather felt compelled at one point to inform the viewers back home that the British "Life Guards [are] not to be confused with the American term lifeguards." This mindless small talk was enlightening compared with the shenanigans of the story-starved stars of the morning shows. At various times during the week, David Hartman of ABC played cricket, Willard Scott of NBC frolicked in the fountain at Trafalgar Square, and Joan Lunden of ABC toured London with a magician...
...worry much about being caught: Jade figures her progressive parents (Morn writes for The Atlantic) won't care Indeed, mother is the first to catch on to their little game: she looks horrified at first, and then a little turned-on, returning to her bed not to inform her husband of what's happening by the fireplace, but instead to make love to him. Later, when he finds out, she sticks up for her little girl. "They're rather sweet, like bats," she says, a little cryptically. "I know it's different, but aren't you happy she finally...
Renters sometimes put their units to inventive uses. A New Mexico manager discovered a user who regularly drove his girlfriend and his Cadillac into his roomy cubicle. The manager had to inform him that love in the warehouse was not allowed. In Altamonte Springs, Fla., police arrested a tenant who was using a mini-warehouse cubicle to grow 364 potted marijuana plants under fluorescent lighting. Perhaps the sneakiest case of all was a Los Angeles woman who made daily trips to her cubicle with new pieces of furniture. When asked by the manager what her purpose was, she explained that...
November 20. I being then at the helm and looking on the windward side of the ship saw a very large whale approaching us. I called out to the mate to inform him of it. On his seeing the whale he instantly gave me an order to put the helm hard up. I had scarcely time to obey the order, when I heard a loud cry from several voices at once, that the whale was coming foul of the ship. Scarcely had the sound of their voices reached my ears when it was followed by a tremendous crash, the whale...
China is subject to a variety of U.S. laws that place restrictions on everything from arms to export credit. Haig planned to inform Peking that Washington is prepared to loosen the controls that now govern trade between the two nations, thus paving the way for the Chinese to buy such items as radar equipment, computers and transport aircraft. In addition, the Secretary of State wanted to discuss the possible sale of arms. Ever short of funds for modernization, the Chinese prefer technology transfers and licensing agreements that would allow them to build on their own such products as the General...