Word: instruct
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...detachment office has information that a number of revolvers are to be issued to the Stat Sch for training purposes. As there are a few automatics on hand, this will enable the staff to instruct on two different hand guns...
...built to convey to Americans at home a graphic picture of what their boys on the fighting fronts were up against, of the weapons they were using, the combat tactics involved. The show took planes, tanks, ships, guns and submarines into action with an authenticity calculated to grip and instruct nonmilitary listeners. An understanding, restrained use of dramatic techniques, sounds and the special language of World War II gave The Man an impact rare in radio...
Indian intellectuals who tuned in to the BBC short-wave radio blinked with surprise. Over the air they were receiving explicit instructions on how to conduct a campaign of passive resistance. After four months of Mohandas Gandhi's nonviolent nonresistance, it seemed to the listeners that the bumbling BBC was carrying coals to Newcastle again. But the BBC was trying to instruct Italians, not Indians, in slowdown technique. The British were carrying coals from India to Italy...
Winston Churchill needed all his skill at parliamentary parrying of touchy subjects. Cocky Tom Driberg, Independent M.P., had risen in the House of Commons and asked the Prime Minister to "make friendly representations to the American military authorities asking them to instruct their men that the color bar is not a custom of this country." The Prime Minister thought the suggestion "unfortunate," hoped "'that without any action on my part the points of view of all concerned will be mutually understood and respected...
...Deliberate intent not to instruct not train San Franciscans in evacuation from their hilly, water-bound peninsula...