Word: informativeness
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...until a convict inside the prison blew his breath on the ice-cold windowpane and wrote with his finger GONE, did the reporters waiting outside know that May had been released and they had missed him. Said a terse prison announcement later that morning: "[We] can inform you gentlemen that May has been discharged. That...
Back in Moscow, Mark Surov is assigned a minor Kremlin post. His heart has turned away from the inhuman regime, but what to do next he does not know. The great purges are beginning; fear floods the city. When Mark invites friends to a party, he must inform the NKVD so that it can send an extra guest...
...little Gironde town of Cenon, where Communists are particularly strong, Town Constable Charles Magne reported to the mayor one day: "Monsieur le Maire, I have the honor to inform you that disorderly elements have been busy last night defacing our fair city with unsightly inscriptions." Sure enough, the decent walls of Cenon were plastered with such discourteous signs as "U.S. Go Home" and "Ridgway-Assassin." Said Mayor René Cassagne: "I hereby order you to take a bucket of whitewash and efface these inscriptions." Constable Magne blotted out the signs-but next morning there were more of them...
...last year protesting against the Communists' tyrannical rule in East Germany. Moscow's reaction was swift. Last week, the day before the bishop and five other German churchmen were due to leave, a wire arrived from Moscow's Bishop Nikolai: "I regret deeply to have to inform you that the Very Holy Patriarch is sick. This makes it impossible to receive you as planned." Germans were incensed at the turndown. Headlined West Berlin's Neue Zeitung: DIBELIUS EX-VITED. Added Der Tagesspiegel: "That's what we call Soviet coordination. Stalin runs a fever...
...every visitor has an easy time, however. A few weeks ago Miss Belcher had a near catastrophe on her hands. A French newspaperman had arrived expressly to see Louis M. Lyons, curator of the Nieman Foundation, about journalism problems that were plaguing his country. He had forgotten to inform Massachusetts Hall that he could not speak English, and since Lyons knows no French the conversation was somewhat disorganized. It was over an hour before Miss Belcher could find an interpreter, and by then both men had given up in despair...