Word: mention
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until April did the Navy relax censorship to permit mention of enemy suicide air tactics, one of the most lurid stories in the history of warfare. But on the same day, Franklin Roosevelt died, and for most of the U.S. press the Kamikaze news was completely overshadowed...
...going to be one you don't like-two-thirds of those [houses] were built by private enterprise. Why have we not built houses? You can ask Mr. Attlee and Mr. Bevin and that great London hero Mr. Morrison, for if we are to blame, they are too." Mention of Labor's leaders sent the hecklers into a new frenzy. Said Churchill: "Another two minutes will be allowed for booing, if you'd like...
...dampen such Boy Scout enthusiasm, the Upperclassman tagged along, nodding appreciatively at the mention of O.H. and the Bick. But Adams House was more inviting than a Freshman dorm, so finally he unmasked. '49 retreated in embarassed disorder...
...Peoples." Dumbarton Oaks had no preamble at all, scarcely a mention of right or justice. The new charter has a preamble which is loaded with principled phrases (see above). Perhaps cynics who scorned the affirmations of faith in tolerance, freedom, equality, hu man dignity and better standards of life forgot that whole economic and social programs had been based upon an equally vague phrase in the U.S. Constitution: "to promote the general welfare." The section on purposes and principles, greatly strengthened, declares one of the organization's purposes to be the promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms...
Nightly, just after the 9 o'clock news, the ballyhoo-shunning BBC quietly introduces a speaker chosen by his party. Aside from these 30-minute talks, mention of political personalities or the campaign is taboo. Not even Churchill, who last week toured the hinterlands (see FOREIGN NEWS) , gets so much as a passing reference...