Word: scots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite his physical condition, the buoyant Scot finished his first draft in three days. In three more he had written the final draft-a phenomenal average of 10,000 words...
...dogfights during the raids the Germans lost 33 fighters, the British seven fighters and 15 bombers. But the Flying Fortresses soaring above the battle got away scot-free...
...Gallup set up the Audience Research Institute-a group of special pollsters separate from his American Institute of Public Opinion, which makes his news paper surveys. Headed by a bright young Scot named David Ogilvy, the new institute made 194 surveys and proceeded to destroy many a cherished Hollywood illusion. Some of its findings...
Since 1939, Author Cronin has been in the U.S. writing articles and making speeches for the British Ministry of Information, "doing my best to convince people that democracy is worth saving." He is a slight, sandy-haired Scot with white eyebrows and eyelashes, and about as unaffected and honest as Father Chisholm. Meeting him for the first time, a hard-boiled newspaperman has been known to wire his office: "His face is a sort of composite of all the face of humanity plus the combination of austerity and kindliness you find in so few faces...
...thanks to a bright young Scot with a quick blue eye and a newshawk's nose that Britain went into World War II with a large and competent staff of trained documentary makers on hand, and a public which liked and respected their product...