Word: informativeness
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...government took pains to assure Turkey's allies that the new regime was dedicated to maintaining Turkey's commitments to NATO, CENTO and the West. One of Gursel's first acts was to dispatch a colonel to inform U.S. Ambassador Fletcher Warren: "Tell the U.S. that we want to build a Turkey on the model...
...Israeli Parliament assembled last week for a humdrum budget debate. Then Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion rose and, in a voice breaking with emotion, said: "I have to inform the Knesset that one of the greatest Nazi war criminals, Adolf Eichmann, who was responsible together with the Nazi leaders for what they called the 'final solution' of the Jewish question-that is, the extermination of 6,000.000 of the Jews of Europe-is under arrest in Israel and will shortly be placed on trial in Israel...
...This time of specialists, of reporters schooled in political science, the mysteries of utility rate structures, philosophies of education, the physical sciences, high finance, health and medicine, aviation, and other areas where to be ignorant journalistically is to invoke the scorn of our better-informed readers. Never before have people so hankered for the fact, spun out plainly and at length. We need to tell the story of our age in simple, living language with precise meanings. We will not only inform but we will educate a generation...
...each morning to inform Her Majesty by direct phone just when the little prince will be ready for his bath. Mabel Anderson, who went to work at 14, never took a course in child psychology in her life, and since the Queen and Prince Philip will be able to spend no more than an hour or two in the nursery each day, she bears a heavy responsibility. But over the centuries, England has come to expect that its nannies will measure...
...Netherlands, which takes its welfare-state benefits seriously, a conscientious civil servant in the village of Diepenveen (pop. 4,018) decided to go out and inform a local farm hand named Hendrik Bally in person that the government, now that he had turned 65, would henceforth pay him a pension of 81 guilders ($21.31) a month...