Word: laconicism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near Iceland, the big B-24 Liberator bomber bored through dark and dirty weather. A British base had radioed a warning: weather bad. From the bomber came the laconic reply: "Continuing."
The press had warned the people of something they already knew-this, more than any Congress heretofore, was a session of destiny. Historic Congresses of the past had held in their hands the fate of the Nation; the deliberations of this Congress would affect the state of the world and...
A B-25 bomber, droning through the Arctic sky one day last week, spotted a Japanese freighter where no Jap freighter ought to be. Said the Navy's laconic communiqué: "The ship was left burning and was later seen to sink." The Navy offered no conjecture as to...
News was fragmentary. Allied headquarters in North Africa had little to say beyond a laconic: "There is nothing to report. Bad weather has stopped all operations."
As the battered Boise came home for repairs last week, the U.S. people could add Mike Moran's seven words to the small and oft-repeated catalogue of their heroes' laconic battle phrases. They were better words, perhaps, than John Paul Jones's "I have not yet...