Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Assistant Secretary of State William Benton, who is fighting hard to get Congress' approval of a $31 million appropriation for his Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs, had some news to report last week. A short-wave transmitter in Munich, which relays OIC broadcasts from the U.S. to Russia, had been sabotaged, causing the broadcasts to go to South America instead...
...December, when wintry winds whistle up the gorge at Harpers Ferry and the temperature nears zero, the bush-league horse-racing circuit shivers to a halt at Charles Town, W. Va. It is the end of the line for gyp (short for gypsy) horsemen and their broken-down nags. Hibernating in the stalls there, the gyps nail up blankets and newspapers to keep out the cold. The swank comforts of Hialeah and Santa Anita are not for them. But this year, for the first time, the gyps went south for the winter. A race track, refurbished lor them, opened...
...kissing each other when meeting. . . . This is all very well for the Russian clergymen, all of whom are well-equipped with long and spiky beards, but it can be most uncomfortable for a clean-shaven English bishop." He recalls how a Russian priest once solemnly kissed his rather short chaplain on the forehead and turned away with the chaplain's spectacles entangled in his beard...
...basis of farmers' planting plans, said the Government, corn and other grain crops would also be huge-depending on the weather. Despite this talk of bumper crops, grain prices steadied at week's end, even rose a bit. Traders hoped that, with most other nations short of grains, the U.S. would continue its heavy exporting for a year, anyway...
...mention the product name at least seven times every 15 seconds during the commercial; 2) repeat the plug as often as possible; 3) do not change the plug for at least 26 weeks, preferably 52; 4) phrase the sales talk to get under a listener's skin -in short, give it a distinct nuisance value...