Word: informativeness
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...driver fell asleep at the wheel and smashed into a streetcar. Adenauer's face was badly injured, still bears scars. While he was still in the hospital, Cologne's mayor died, and a delegation of the city council dropped in to inform Adenauer of the news. "They sent a delegation," Adenauer grins, "because they had heard of my severe head injuries. They wanted to make sure I was still normal." Satisfied that he was, the city council elected him mayor...
...Kampfgruppe released to the press detailed accounts of life and suffering in Communist concentration camps. The catalogue of horrors soon served another purpose. From inmates who were released or had escaped, Hildebrandt obtained names of people who had died or were still held in Soviet-zone prisons, tried to inform their relatives...
...answer to Mr. Robert W. Miller's comment about the used-car dealers [TIME, June 13], I would like to inform him that there are many honest car dealers . . . [who] have refrained from taking money under the table and collecting bonuses...
...with arrests and trials. They were fortified with the words of their archbishop, Josef Beran, who remained in his Prague palace surrounded by armed plainclothesmen. "Do not allow yourselves to be intimidated by threats," he had written. "In these difficult times all priests are conscience-bound to inform the faithful of the true state of affairs." Beran and the bishops added that priests who refused to read their letter would be "subject to ecclesiastical discipline...
Seventy-eight percent said that their Departments had not "made an effective effort to inform, students about careers open to them," while just 28 percent thought chances of getting a job "very good." This last figure, Dean Wild added, "reflects deteriorating employment conditions...