Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter was picked up by Congressman James Van Vandt, Pennsylvania, a Navy man himself, and aired before an investigating committee this summer. Most of its charges were neatly shot down by the B-36 men. And the Navy found that its operating budget was squeezing things to a point where some of the big Naval Shipyards; essential to the fleet's war mobilization plans, would have to close up shop...
Most military experts are beginning to feel that this attenuated naval force would be less than unfortunate. They point out that the Navy's light fundamentally centers around the question of who is going to fly out bombers from where. The Navy wants to stage them from carriers, and points to the wonderful mobility and endurance of its carrier task forces in the Pacific during the last war. The Air Force feels that this admitted flexibility of the task force is outweighed by the size limitations inherent in carrier planes, and the expense and vulnerability of the ships handling them...
After an introductory speech, Dr. Moreno picked two graduate students from the audience and put them through a brief impromptu act to demonstrate uses of the psychodramatic technique which he developed at Vienna 30 years ago. The point of the psychodrama, Moreno explained, is to create a situation in which the person can act spontaneously...
...clarify my position on the question of communists on our college and school faculties? I cannot help feeling that the CRIMSON'S account of the Friday night Law School Forum misses my essential point...
When Burl Ives finished the program at Symphony Hall Saturday night he turned toward the stage door, suddenly made an "on hell," gesture and returned to face the thunderous applause. "I have received a great many requests tonight," he said, "and I see no point in my going clear out that door and back again every time...