Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bevin spoke, if it ever could be achieved at all, might take a long chain of other Berlins-of similar hard-won victories from Seoul to Trieste. The West had learned that for decades to come it faced more or less permanent duty on the ramparts of freedom. The point was that the West's position had improved immeasurably since the Berlin blockade began...
...point of the Batavia agreement was restoration, to the Nationalists, of Jogjakarta, the Republic's capital, which Dutch parachutists had seized (TIME, Dec. 27). It also provided for the release of the Republican leaders, including President Soekarno and Premier Hatta, whom the Dutch had hustled off to custody on Bangka Island. The Republicans in return promised to order their guerrillas to stop fighting. In The Netherlands, government leaders still worried whether Soekarno would be able to hold his hotheaded army leaders and leftist supporters to that promise. Both sides also agreed to attend a round-table meeting...
...from a milk bottle, blow bubbles and weep realistic tears. A group of British models displayed highly exportable bathing suits. Britain's Socialist government begged British businessmen to get in there and pitch a good, hard, competitive game. The New Statesman and Nation's Sagittarius drove the point home on a high and clarion note...
This Teutonic definition totally missed the point. Opening the front door is a purely incidental duty for La Pipelette. She has chores which include leasing apartments, delivering mail, sweeping the halls, and collecting both garbage and rents. She is the voice of conscience and the threat of retribution. She sees everything and understands much. Monsieur, she notices, is taking on weight. La Pipelette has a brother-in-law who is concierge at an establishment where gentlemen's waistlines are held in check by fencing or judo. For a consideration, Madame could make arrangements...
...experts are agreed on one point: the next war in the air will not be fought with the tactics or weapons of the last one. Given a few years to develop weapons now in the experimental stage, airmen will make the aerial gunfights of World War II as obsolete as cavalry raids...